Morning News
4th November 1957
Mujib Criticises Move to stop ICA AID
By A Staff Reporter
The East Pakistan Awami League General Secretary, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, expressed his resentment against the move to postpone the expenditure of the 10 million dollar ICA aid to private industries.
In a statement issued in Dacca late last (Sunday) night he denied that the Subhrawardy Government took into consideration political affiliations, in the distribution of import incenses. He challenged “anybody” to examine the list of the parties who were granted licenses from this province.” Sheikh Mujib said this decision at the instance of the present Central Government “foreshadows things the come and reappearance of a rule which during the last 10 years had impoverished the country as a whole, and East Pakistan in particular, with a view to fattening ….. small coterie.” Saying that “the unholy cliques at Karachi had exploited the poor people of this province,” Sheikh Mujibur Rahman threatened that the Awami League was “seriously” contemplating to raise a country-wide agitation in this connection.
The Awami League, he said might have to issue mandate to the East Pakistan government to take as possible measures to “face that threat to the economic development of this province.”