‘Help repatriation of Bangalees’
April 6, 1972
BANGABANDHU EXPELS 16 MCAS FROM PARTY
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh Awami League today expels 16 Member of Constituent Assembly (MCAs) from the party for acting against the discipline, interest and directions of the party. Bangabandhu takes the decision in pursuance of power vested in him as the president of the party and the decision will come into effect immediately. Most of the expelled MCAs are known to have maintained links with the Yahya regime when all people of Bangladesh were engaged in the liberation struggle.
Obaidullah Majumdar, for example, who was elected Member of National Assembly (MNA) from Noakhali constituency, was one of the members of the Pakistani Governor Dr Malek's so-called Council of Ministers. He is now in custody.
Another expelled MCA SB Zaman, who was elected Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA)from Mymensingh constituency, acted in a vindictive manner against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the false case brought against him by Yahya regime, and also arranged witnesses in the case and is said to have collaborated with the Yahya regime in various other manners.
FAIR-PRICE SHOPS FOR ESSENTIALS
The government is going to abolish wholesale agencies and middlemen in the trade for essential commodities and some other items. The government will take this action to ensure that people get their necessities at a normal price and also to check profiteering and black-marketing. It is also learnt that the cooperative department is preparing a scheme for supplying essential items like kerosene, edible oil, soap, soda and some other consumer goods through fair-price shops to be set up at the union level on a cooperative basis.
BANGABANDHU SUMMONS ICRC CHIEF
Bangabandhu today summons the chief of International Committee of Red Cross in Bangladesh and tells him of the grave and pitiable conditions of the Bengalis herded in camps and segregated houses scattered all over Pakistan. He requests the ICRC chief to arrange immediate visits to these camps by ICRC teams to enquire the welfare of the Bangalees and help their repatriation.
SONG OF BANGLADESH
One of the most popular folk singers of America, Joan Baez, has recorded a song called 'song of Bangladesh'. She herself composed the song. Sale proceeds of the record will go to refugees in Bangladesh through UNICEF.
NEW MARSHAL PLAN FORBANGLADESH
John Stonehouse, Labour MP, will introduce an emergency motion in the House of Commons next week asking the British government to initiate urgent moves with other governments to construct a new Marshal Plan for supporting Bangladesh. In a full-page advertisement carried by Times today, War on Want, a British charitable organisation, asks the British public to send telegrams to Stonehouse supporting his emergency motion.
SOURCES: April 7, 1972 issues of Ittefaq, The Bangladesh Observer, Azad, Morning News, Dainik Bangla and Purbodesh.
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