Morning News
7th May 1956
No Change of AL-UF Coalition
-Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, MCA, General Secretary, East Pakistan Awami League, who arrived in Dacca on Saturday morning from Karachi, said that there was no chance of a coalition with the “discredited United Front Ministry”, reports APP.
The Awami League Secretary alleged that the United Front Ministry had failed to solve the food problem and had created famine conditions in the province. “The United Front Party forming a coalition with the Muslim league at the Centre and usurping power in the province has betrayed the 21-Point Programme the demand for full provincial autonomy for East Pakistan and party in all respects,” he added. “The Awami League Party, having an ideology and record of services to the suffering people, could not form a coalition with the United Front Party”, Mr. Rahman added.
He left Dacca yesterday for Kagmari to persuade Maulana Bhashani to suspend his hunger-strike till May 19 when the Awami League Council will meet in Dacca.