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436 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড Conspiracy of the Reactionaries But the sweeping victory of the Awami League in the election had unnerved the ruling military junta and the right reactionary forces. And they began to conspire to nullify the verdict of the people and their hopes and aspirations. Z. A. Bhutto, the leader of the People's Party, acted as the political spearhead of that conspiracy. The People's Party had, through Bhutto's demagogy on socialism, etc. and his anti-India thunder, secured a majority of National Assembly seats (84 out of 144) from West Pakistan. Bhutto's People's Party secured those 84 seats only from Punjab and Sind provinces, but failed to secure even a single from frontier ( Pathanland) and Baluchistan. The National Awami Party (led by Wali and Muzaffar) got absolute majority in Baluchistan in the National and Provincial Assemblies. In Frontier Province it secured 3 seats in the National Assembly, and became the single largest party in the Provincial Assembly. So Bhutto did not actually represent the whole of West Pakistan. But he posed as such and to subvert the session of the National Assembly, he had raised a slogan that there should be no National Assembly session "prior to any agreement between the two major parties—the Awami League and People's Party-on the questions of the future constitution of Pakistan." Bhutto and some People's Party leaders had also met the Awami League leaders at Dacca "to discuss constitutional issues" just to parade that they were trying for "an agreement". But actually Bhutto and his party were deadly against the six-point programme and the autonomy for the nationalities. They were trying to pressuring the Awami League to give up the six-point programme. But the Awami League had refused to go back on its commitment to the people. So the game of Bhutto failed. The conspiracy of the reactionaries then went on in full swing. The Communist Party had foreseen the danger and had warned the people against it. Meanwhile, Yahya Khan had summoned the first session of the National Assembly to be held at Dacca on 3rd March. Immediately, Bhutto declared that he and his party would not attend the session of the National Assembly and if the National Assembly session was held on that dale "the whole of West Pakistan would be in flames". It was on this threat of Bhutto, the leader of a-party which had only 84 seats in the National Assembly, that Yahya Khan had on 1st March issued a statement over the radio postponing the National Assembly session sine die. He had also convened a Round Table Conference of all the party leaders at Dacca on 10th March to discuss constitutional issues. But, surprisingly enough, Yahya Khan had not thought it necessary to consult the Awami League-the party having an absolute majority in the National Assemblybefore he had postponed the National Assembly -before he had postponed the National Assembly session and convened the RTC.