BanglaDesh leftist front’s call for revolt by W. Pakistanis
MUJIBNAGAR, July 19. – The BanglaDesh liberation struggle coordination committee has called upon Sindhis, Baluchis, Pathans and Pubjabis of West Pakistan to rise in revolt against the Pakistani military junta and extend all-out support to the freedom fighters of BanglaDesh.
The committee comprising a number of Leftist political parties of East Bengal, at a meeting held recently somewhere in BanglaDesh, expressed its firm determination to carry on the armed struggle against the marauding hordes of Yahya Khan till their country became independent.
The committee appealed to all the freedom loving peoples and democratic and socialist States of the world to extend their fullest cooperation and help to the liberation movement of BanglaDesh.
The committee felt that its immediate objective was to take the liberation struggle forward and urged all the freedom-loving people, groups and parties, including the Awami League, to form a national liberation front for this purpose.
The committee further believed that the success of the liberation war would depend on the fullest utilization of the strength and resources of the whole people and there was no need to depend on any foreign power. It decided to form armed guerilla squads to conduct the liberation war in close coordination with the Mukti Fauj.
The committee took a vow to defeat all the “internal and foreign conspiracies aimed at a compromise” with the military junta and expressed its firm resolve to free the motherland from the bondage of slavery.
The committee resolved to set up a Democratic republic of BanglaDesh in which all classes of people would have the minimum guarantee of food, clothing, housing, education and medicine.
The coordination committee, which included the National Awami Party headed by Maulana Bhashani, the Committee of the East Bengal Communist Revolutionaries, the Shramik Krishak Karmi Sangha, the Communist Party of BanglaDesh, the Purba Bangla Krishak Samiti, the Purba Bangla Shramik Federation, the BanglaDesh Sramik Federation and East Bengal’s Revolutionary Students Union was recently formed somewhere in BanglaDesh-PTI.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 20.07.1971