Bangabandhu felicitated
October 20, 1972
STUDENT BODIES GREET BANGABANDHU
Representatives of different hall unions of the Engineering University today call on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to felicitate him on being awarded the Joliot-Curie medal of the World Peace Council. They garland him at the Gono Bhaban. They also hand over to Bangabandhu a memorandum containing their problems and grievances.
A group of students of Dhaka Medical College also calls on the prime minister today to congratulate him.
BHASHANI DEMANDS REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION
National Awami Party (Bhashani) Chief Maulana Bhashani says today that the Draft Constitution has failed to reflect the hopes and aspirations of the people and ensure their basic rights to food, shelter, medicare, education and employment. It has also failed to provide provisions for the proportionate representation of the workers and the peasants in the assembly, although the government is committed to establishing the "Krishak Sramik Raj" in the country. Addressing the extended meeting of the Central Working Committee of NAP (B) at Santosh Bhashani calls upon the government to hold a referendum on the draft constitution and assess the public opinion. He says that if the people accept the constitution, then his party should not have any objection to it.
$14M SWEDISH AID FOR BANGLADESH
The government of Sweden has fixed an indicative planning target of 14 million dollars for Bangladesh for the fiscal year 1973-74. This is disclosed by Gus Edgren, leader of the eight-member delegation of the Swedish International Development Authority, now visiting Bangladesh. He says that the Swedish government gave 21million dollars to Bangladesh under an agreement signed in April, 1972 for the current fiscal year which has already been placed at the disposal of the Bangladesh government for national reconstruction and development.
SOURCES: October 21, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.
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