Morning News
15th December 1964
LAWLESSNESS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
Governor Monem’s Stern Warning
BDs ASKED NOT TO BE LURED
AWAY BY PAT ON BACK
Statements By Bhashani, Mujib & Amin Recalled
Comilla, Dec. 14 (APP): The Governor of East Pakistan, Mr. Abdul Monem Khan, declared here today that Government was determined to maintain complete law and order for holding the coming elections in the country.
Addressing the Basic Democrats’ Covention attended by over 6,000 old members of the Basic Democracy and the newly elected ones of Comilla District, the Government struck a note of warning that government would not tolerate any law lessness as Government’s arms were strong enough to keep law and order in the country.
He expressed concern over the increasing indiscipline found in a section of students who have been let loose by the disgruntled politicians.
The Governor referred to the assault on a Parliamentary Secretary the other day in Dacca where his car was also burnt. He added that if things moved this way, he failed to understand where it would find its end.
Mr. Monem Khan said how bewildering the policy of the Combined Opposition Parties were as while they cried for freedom of speech and Press, they in the same breath instigated the innocent students to indulge in slogan mongering and lawlessness.
He exhorted the members present not to be unnerved by the overt threat of the COP leaders and other elements and exercise their ballot without any intimidation, influence, fear and provocation in the coming elections.
The Government, he assured, would provide all protection to them in their discharge of voting rights.
The Governor, however, appealed to the members of the Electoral College to be very cautious in their choice as once they erred, it would be tantamount to betraying the trust of the people and the cause of the country.
The Governor cautioned the members of the Electoral College not to be lured away by the sudden and meaningful pat on their back by the COP leaders including their Presidential candidate. They should not and cannot ignore the insults and insinuations hurled at them publicly by those leaders day in and day out since their creation by President Ayub.
BHASHANI’S POLITICAL SICKNESS
Among the C.O.P. stalwarts Maulana Bhashani, he said,
called the Basic Democrats thieves and dacoits and charged them for taking bribes from the villages. Maulana Bhashani, the Governor said, never changed his earlier stand towards them. He told the Basic Democrats that of late Maulana Bhashani was no more to be seen in the picture. His sudden disappearance might be a political sickness having lost his leadership, he remarked.
The Governor further asked the members to recall the threat of the “so-called revolutionary leader” Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who in his speech on March 20, 1963, at Paltan Maidan, Dacca, had charged the Basic Democrats for misappropriating money and spending funds without any audit. He had also theatened them that they were preparing a list of the Basic Democrats who would be taken to task later.
NURUL AMIN WANTED BOYCOTT
The other COP and NDF leaders the late Khwaja Nazimuddin and Mr. Nurul Amin also harboured evil designs against the Basic Democrats and wanted their social boycott and branded them as traitors. Mr. Nurul Amin had charged them for taking bribe right and left.
The Governor appealed to his audience to ponder over these obnoxious remarks and objectionable utterances of the so-called stalwarts of the Opposition questioning their loyalty, honesty, patriotism and sincerilty and decide whether they could afford to digest such comments or challenge their audacity.
SKYHIGH PROMISES
The Governor reminded them that they had also seen their performances in statecraft in the past keeping in view the skyhigh promises and rosy pictures given to the electorate before election. He said that once again they had appeared on political scene on the eve of elections with same lofty promises to lure the people to fall in their trap again.
He warned the people that those leaders had then only taken the country to economic and political bankruptcy and this time, the very existence of the country, salvaged by President ….. not tolerate any lawlessness. …..
PRESENT CONSTITUTION
Referring to the criticism of the present Constitution by the C.O.P. leaders the Governor said that the political instability, lawlessness, chaos and confusion which prevailed in preMartial Law days itself were the solid evidence of the ineffectiveness and failure of the 1956 Constitutions which those leaders wanted to bring in again.
On the other hand, the Governor said, the present Constitution had given the country a stable Government, sound economy, political maturity, mass awakening and revolutionary changes in the rural life. The present Constitution he further said, had decentralised the powers and given widest franchise to the people. It was under the new system that people representatives would be directly electing the Head of the State besides Central and Provincial Legislatures.
Miss Junnah
Referring to the selection of Miss Jinnah as COP Presidential candidate, the Governor regretted that she, the sister of the Qaid-e-Azam had been encircled by those who throughout fought against the creation of Pakistan and Qaide-Azam. He felt pity how the sister of Qaid-e-Azam could be the leader of those forces which dreamt once of a joint Bengal and were still active in their Pakhtoonistan movement.
He further asked Miss Jinnah how she could reconcile with those persons whose mouthpiece, “Ittefaq”, once refused to call her as Mader-e-Millat, and charged her for misappropriating Bihar Relter Fund.
Detailing the achievements of the present Government the Governor said that it was President Ayub who had gone all out to remove the economic interwing disparity inherited as legacy of the past Governments.
He added that it was under the present Government when East Pakistan not only got …
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