[Excerpt from a longer article written in 2009 ]
<< When everything was ready for the first sitting of the elected Constituent Assembly in Dhaka the sudden postponement of the sitting though was unexpected, the seasoned politician like Mujib rightly apprehended that the conspirators were now hyper active not to transfer power to Mujib and Awami League. As soon as the announcement was made on 1 March the people of Bengal erupted like a volcano and right from that day the control of the civilian government was taken over by Bangabandhu. Virtually that was the end of united Pakistan.
In his speech that late afternoon Mujib narrated the background of the plight of the people of East Bengal since the day Pakistan was created, how they were deceived and deprived and how they were discriminated by the rulers for the last twenty three years, the continuous conspiracies hatched against them whenever there was a possibility of forming a government in the centre and how the wealth and resources of East Bengal was plundered for the benefit of West Pakistan. >>
www.daily-sun.com What will you say Mujib Bhai today asked Haji Ghulam Morshed who was driving Mujib, later to be known as the Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the late afternoon of 7 March 1971 to the public rally venue at Ramna Race Course (now Suhrawardy Udyan). Mujib who was |
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