Retired General guiding Mukti Fauj
From Our Correspondent, SILCHAR, MAY, 31- A person hailing from Sibsagar town in Assam is in the vanguard of the protracted liberation struggle in Bangladesh. He is 65 year old Major General M. I. Majid, who has come out of his cool serenity of a retired life of guide and direct the freedom fighters in the eastern sector in Bangladesh. As age hangs heavy on him he has quietly declined the offer given to him by the Bangladesh Government to become a Minister of War in the Cabinet. Instead, he only rates content in giving his mature and valuable advice to the freedom fighters.
A Sandhurst graduate and stocky and handsome, Maj. General Majid was in the 419th Hyderabad Regiment in undivided India and he had seen active service in the Far East during World War II. Once he was held prisoner of war in Singapore by the Japanese.
He presided over that historical meeting of the “Association of Ex-servicemen of East Bengal ” held at Baitul Mukarram in Dacca on March 19 and read the oath of support of the ex-servicemen to Sheik Mujibur Rahman. Col. A. G Osmani, C-in-C of the Mukti Fouz and Major Nabah Hasan Askari (retd) were also present at that meeting.
Maj. Gen. Majid had a brother in the I.C.S in the Assam cadre and both the brothers opted for Pakistan soon after independence.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 01.06.1971