Bangla people hope India will “do more”: Tajuddin
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 1- The people of Bangladesh hope that India will “do more in support” of their liberation struggle and that the Soviet Union will give them all possible help the Prime Minister, Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed, has said, reports UNI.
He has also appealed to the people of the world to “intensify their actions of solidarity with the people of Bangladesh”.
Mr. Ahmed made the appeal while replying to questions put to him by the World Peace Council Secretary-General, Mr. Romesh Chanda, who called on him at Mujibnagar, last week.
Mr. Ahmed welcomed the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty “signed by two great countries, both our very valued friends, on whose support we count much in our struggle for national liberation.”
During the interview, the text of which was made available here today by the All-India Peace Council, Mr. Ahmed said : “In our fight for national independence, peace and prosperity and for the end of all exploitation, we believe that the IndoSoviet treaty will greatly help us. India, we are sure, wil do more in support of our struggle. The Soviet Union has in the past come in aid of the oppressed people struggling for emancipation, Naturally we count on the Soviet Union to give our people’s just struggle all possible help.”
He restated that their struggle was for complete national liberation. “It is only a matter of time when we shall be completely free.”
He spoke of “a strong popular voice in the United States” denouncing the massacres committed by the Yahya regime in Bangladesh and supporting the cause of liberation.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 02.09.1971