“CIA poses big danger to BanglaDesh”
NEW DELHI, January 4: Mr. MUZAFFAR AHMED, Chairman of the National Awami Party of BanglaDesh, said today BanglaDesh was free from “monopolists, feudalism and stooges of imperialist Powers” and in this lay the nation’s strength.
Talking to the U.N.I he said the three major “cancers of the social order were eliminated in the struggle for national liberation,” He said monopoly business houses of West Pakistan in the erstwhile East Pakistan had been eliminated. So were the big landed interests who also hailed from West Pakistan. Fortunately the “ugly role” played by the U.S. in the struggle for liberation had acted as a big eye opener for the nation, he added.
Mr. Ahmed said even the reactionary communal forces like the Muslim League and the Jamait-E-Islami had been forced to lie low at the present juncture.
He said the people of BanglaDesh wanted the continuation of the unity forged between different nationalists political parties during the struggle for liberation in the form of a national Government.
ANTI-INDIAN CAMPAIGN Mr. Ahmed added it was for the Government to spell out the mechanism for securing the active cooperation of all political parties. Offering no opposition to the Government in power was just a form of passive cooperation. The people wanted a more energetic and active cooperation of all political parties in the task of national reconstruction at the earliest.
Mr. Ahmed said it was the people’s desire for complete unanimity that had made him come to Delhi to persuade Maulana Bhashani to return to his motherland.
He said “the invisible Government of the CIA” posed the greatest danger to the nation’s future. He thought the U.S. would try to exploit the shattered economic conditions of BanglaDesh and “infiltrate the intellectual and political classes through liberal funds,” He also warned that the U.S. had already begun an anti-India campaign through subtle propaganda through mass media by portraying the “Indian liberation forces as occupation forces.”
By its exemplary conduct and friendliness the Indian Army had won the hearts of the people of BanglaDesh. But “many nations had committed the mistake of underestimating the C.I.A. to their woe and neither we nor India can afford to make it.”
Prof. Ahmed said the immediate problem facing his nation was providing some basic minimum requirements to the people. Amongst the items in acute shortage were kerosene oil, mustard oil, salt and matches.
He said only after these items had been procured could the nation think in terms of larger national economic reconstruction. – U.N.I
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 05.01.1972