462 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড The Exploited Replying to a question if he extremist elements would join such an all-party committee in view of their attitude towards other parties, particularly the Awami League, the NAP leader said: "I think national liberation is the main task before the people, whichever party they may belong". Maulana Bhashani said that the fight in Bangladesh was between two sections of Muslims—the exploiters and the exploited. In a talk with newsmen, the NAP leader denied that the current "revolution" in his country had been imported from India or any other land. Whenever the Pakistani rulers could not solve any problem, they blamed India to save their skin. Had India abetted this revolution, it could have given recognition to the Provisional Government, of Sheikh Mujibur, Rahman, he said adding that on many occasions he himself had been described as "an agent of India". The octogenarian leader said that the British had left the Indian sub-continent in time and it was high time that Yahya regime left Bangladesh. The more the delay the more would be the complications, he added. Maulana Bhashani does not know where is wife and children are at present. "I do not know whether they are dead or alive," he said, answering a question by l correspondent about a Pakistani report of his "arrest" by the Yahya Khan Government. He said that he had heard the report after his house at Kagmari in Mymensingh District had been destroyed. But he had no information about his wife and children. However, what hurt him most personally was the total destruction by Pakistani troops of his small library, which contained the "collection of a life time," he said.
