Morning News
23rd February 1969
Mujib advises calm
(By our staff Reporter)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, yesterday called upon the people to remain calm and peaceful at all costs.
In his first speech since release from military custody the Awami League chief told a vast cheering, slogan chanting crowd at his Dhanmandi residence not to be provoked under any circumstances.
As the tumultuous crowd broke into thunderous slogans of “Sheikh Mujib Zindabad”, he told them that his release and the total withdrawal of the Agartala Conspiracy Case was nothing “but victory of the people who had been fighting for a long time”.
He declared that the blood of the shaheeds would not be allowed to go in vain and he would engage all his energies for the reansation of the demands of the people. “I shall be always with you in your struggle”, he said.
Sheikh Shahib said he had full support for the 11-point demands of the students and pointed out that his party’s Six points were also embodied in the student demands. He said before him there was no difference between the people of East and West Pakistan. He would night for the cause of the entire people.
Sheikh Mujib, who had to appear on his balcony a number of times as people swelled into a sea of humanity, said the struggle already launched in the country was the struggle between the oppressor and the poor. “The truth must triumph” he said.
সুত্র: সংবাদপত্রে বঙ্গবন্ধু: পঞ্চম খণ্ড ॥ ষাটের দশক ॥ চতুর্থ পর্ব ॥ ১৯৬৯