Secret Documents of Intelligence Branch on Father of The Nation, Bangladesh: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Secret Documents of Intelligence Branch on Father of The Nation, Bangladesh: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Hasina
2018-2022
The intelligence agency of Pakistan kept Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of thousands years, under strict surveillance almost at every stage of his long 23 year struggle for the nation’s autonomy to sovereignty leading to the independence.
The then Intelligence Branch (IB) collected and compiled information of almost all his political programs and other activities throughout the country. Documents available in 47 personal files (PF) maintained in his name will gradually be published in volumes of 1-14. These volumes will contain many known and unknown facts concerning the emergence of the country name Bangladesh, which were conserved as classified government documents.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman organised the East Pakistan Muslim Chatra (students) League and engaged them in the Language Movement and in the movements to restore the rights of the menials of Dhaka University. Having parted from Muslim League, Pakistan’s (then) influential and ruling political party, he ‘organized Awami League and transformed it into a popular party of the distressed people of ‘Bengal. ‘It was at his hands that the complete extension and manifestation of Awami League ‘took place.
Despite the Bengalis being the majority, the ruling coterie of Pakistan took recourse to various conspiracies to distance them from power. This exclusion of the Bengalis from governance was ultimately revealed when they “dismissed the 1954 United-Front Government and established the rule of the Central Government.
Bangabandhu made the people of this country understand how the country’s wealth ie. currencies earned from selling jute, were being spent to modernize Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
For long 23 years, he instilled in the people of Bengal the ‘spirit of independence’ by making them realize the limitless discriminatory behaviors of the West Pakistani ruling class against ‘the Bengalis, including extreme disparities in military and other government employments, inequitable prices of daily necessities in the two parts of Pakistan, unfair levy on goods in East Bengal, inconsistent education policy and negligence to East Bengal in its infrastructure, roads and highways development and so on. Consequently, there followed the movement against Ayub Khan, the 6-Point Movement, Agartala Conspiracy Case, the Mass Revolution of 1969, the Election of 1970, the Non-cooperation Movement of 1971 culminating in the War of Independence. Thus the Bengalis earned their greatest achievement in thousand years-the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh as a state.
