Morning News
19th August 1958
4 NAP MPAs To Support KSP Coalition
By A Staff Reporter
Four members of the NAP parliamentary party in the East Pakistan Assembly have decided to support the KSP coalition headed by Mr. Abu Hossain Sarkar.
The members in a joint statement issued to the Press last night declared that their decision was “quite in conformity with the directive of the Central Parliamentary Board and also the wise instruction of our beloved leaders such as Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Abdul Majid Sindhi and no less than the founder of our movement, Maulana Bhashani prior to his departure to Stockholm Peace conference. A hot controversy was brought about in the political arena, they said, ever since the “understanding” was arrived at between Mr. Mahmud Ali and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The conflict, they pointed out, forged a “divesting split” into the party which was born a year ago with “lofty ideals of democracy.”
The four leaders maintained that the stand of Mr. Suhrawardy, “the illustrious leader of the Awami League,” who could brook no delay in condemning the new-born Arab nationalism negatived the spirit of the “so-called understanding which was loudly proclaimed to have been arrived at on the basis of the revolutionary 5-point programme of the NAP, one of which was independent foreign policy.” Referring to the part played by the NAP Parliamentary Party in the Provincial Assembly, the NAP leaders said that it was a “mockery” of the decision taken by the NAP parliamentary Board which ultimately broke down the constitutional machinery of the province and led to the imposition of Sec. 193, concluding the statement they said that the Parliamentary Government could only be restored if a “positive” support could be given to the opposition bloc of the Provincial Assembly under the leadership of Mr. Abu Hossain Sarkar. The following are signatories to the statement: Maulana Altaf Hossain, Vice-President, Pakistan National Awami Party, Mr. Muazzam Husain, Mr. Faizal Hasan and Mr. Hatim Ali.