পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৬৪

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434 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড had laid down two alternatives. Is said, either these would be two separate but easily convertible currencies for East and West Pakistan or there would be one currency for the whole of Pakistan under the Central government with the provision that there would be a separate State Bank for East Pakistan and some arrangements would be there to stop the fight of capital from East Pakistan to the Western Wing. So, the six-point programme of Awami League had demanded wide autonomous powers for East Pakistan within the State of Pakistan and was not a secessionist move as was suggested by Some interested quarters. This six-point programme of the Awami League did get wide support from the people of East Pakistan and the movement launched by the Awami League on its basis (June 1966) was a powerful one which was also supported by the communists and the left-wing section of the National Awami Party (NAP) then led by Moulana Bhasani. The Ayub regime had suppressed that movement with violence. But again there Was a huge popular upsurge against the Ayub regime throughout the whole of Pakistan in 1968-69. The Communist Party of East Pakistan had played an active role in that movement, especially in forging a united front of all democratic and opposition forces. In East Pakistan, that popular upsurge was based on the 11point programme advanced by the Student Action Committee (composed of all progressive and democratic students' organizations) and supported by the Awami League and the National Awami Party led by Wali and Muzaffar. The 11-point programme contained demands for a neutral and independent foreign policy, scrapping of the military pacts, nationalization of banks, insurance and big industries, living wage for the workers, reduction of rents and taxes, educational reforms, full civil liberty, etc., besides the demands for full autonomy and democracy (i.e., the sixpoint programme of the Awami League). In West Pakistan all the opposition forces including the anti- Ayub rightists were united on the basis of the demand for parliamentary democracy and adult franchise. The people of Pathanland, Baluchistan and Sindh joined the movement with the aspirations of parliamentary democracy and autonomy, especially the break-up of one UIl1t. It was due to that popular upsurge throughout Pakistan, the main demands of which were democracy and autonomy, that the dictatorial regime of Ayub Khan was toppled down. Yahya Khan Conies to Power But Ayub Khan, before he had to step down, handed to the C-in-C, General Yahya Khan and Martial Law was Pakistan for the Second time on 25th March 1969. But though the Martial Law was clamped and there was a military rule headed by Yahya Khan, it was due to the pressure of the huge popular upsurge that Yahya Khan had to concede to the following popular upsurge that Yahya Khan had to concede to the following popular demands direct election on universal and adult franchise, abolition of "parity" introduced in 1955 and representation in the National Assembly on the basis of population, framing of a new constitution by elected National Assembly, undoing of one