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History Distortion

PM asks people not to be misled

Staff Correspondent
People who do not believe in the country's independence and want to cover up the 1971 atrocities by the Pakistani army are now creating confusion over the Liberation War history, said the prime minister.
In her concluding speech for the Sangsad session yesterday, Sheikh
Hasina said, "Those who did not want the liberation of the country and are subservient to the defeated forces will make different kinds of misleading statements. I urge the people not to be misled by their statements.”
Her speech was an oblique reference to BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman's widely criticised claim on Tuesday night that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had illegally become prime minister in 1972.
His comment came less than two weeks after he had claimed that his father Ziaur Rahman was the first president of Bangladesh, for which he took a lot of flak.
Hasina yesterday said those people never wanted Bangladesh. They do not want development of the country. They are busy with sycophancy and were distorting history for this purpose.
She said, "It's an era of technology and the history of the whole world can be learnt through information technology."
Hasina said Bangabandhu was arrested on March 26, 1971, for declaring the independence of the country and the nation responded to his call and liberated the country.
Hasina said the first government of Bangladesh was formed on April 10, 1971, and it took oath on April 17and Col Osmani was made chief of the armed forces on April 11.
On the formation of the parliamentary form of government, the premier said Bangabandhu returning home on January 10, 1972, held a cabinet meeting the next day with then prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad and others.
The meeting unanimously decided to introduce the parliamentary form of government. Following gazette notification of the decision,
Bangabandhu became the prime minister of Bangladesh, added Hasina, daughter of Bangabandhu.
She yesterday came down heavily on the BNP and its founder Ziaur Rahman. She said Zia had declared himself the pres-ident after the murder of Bangabandhu in 1975 and he had rehabilitated and rewarded all anti-liberation forces and the killers of Bangabandhu.
Hasina, also the president of Awami League, said the BNP-Jamaat wanted to stop the 10th parliamentary elections through killings and striking terror so that they could bring undemocratic forces to power.
RAUSHAN ERSHAD
During her concluding speech, the Leader of the Opposition in parliament Raushan Ershad said people want to get rid of the existing "politics of vengeance" between the Awami League and the BNP.
"People do not want to see sick politics anymore. The main aim of politics is welfare of people," Raushan said.
Amid clapping of treasury bench MPs, Raushan said Bangladesh would not develop if the division existed.
Raushan said Jatiya Party wants to show that they are the real opposition who want to work to strengthen the country's democracy.
The 10th parliament formed through the January 5 national elections went into its maiden session on January 29. The inaugural session was prorogued yesterday after 36 sittings.