460 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ১৮৬। বাংলাদেশের বিরাট বিজয় ওয়ার্কস প্রেস ১৭ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ WORKERS PRESS, DECEMBER 17, 1971 SURRENDER A GREAT VICTORY FOR BANGLADESH By John Spencer Pakistan forces in Bangladesh surrendered unconditionally to the Indian army and the Mukti Bahini yesterday. Indian premier Mrs. Indira Gandhi told a wildly cheering parliament that 'Dacca is now the free capital of a free country'. India has already recognized Bangladesh, which now becomes a state in reality as well as in the minds of the Bengali people. The final surrender came just ten minutes before that expiry of an extended ceasefire, and India had threatened to resume the offensive with the utmost vigour, if its surrender call was not obeyed. The Bangladesh provisional government is to take office in Dacca today. The Awami League leaders who make up most of the new government were unable to reach there yesterday because of transport problems. Victory The liberation of Bangladesh from the Pakistani dictatorship is a tremendous victory for the Bengali people. But the situation is still fraught with danger. The Awami League is taking office with a thoroughly conservative and bourgeois programme which has nothing to offer the mass of workers and peasants beyond empty proclamations. The Awami League proposes no real agrarian reform beyond vague promises to 'rationalize' land holdings and to the landless peasants. This cannot overcome the chronic agrarian crisis in Bangladesh, where a predominantly peasant majority lives in a state of perpetual poverty. The new government's promise to 'reverse effectively' the monopolist bias’ of industry is equally vague and demagogic. Bengali workers and peasants can place no reliance on the promises of the bourgeois leaders of the Awami League and the Gandhi government. They must organize independently of the capitalist class and resist all attempts to disarm them or recruit them for a war of annexation against W. Pakistan. W. Pakistanis were not informed of the surrender, though the governmentcontrolled radio" which has been broadcasting martial music for the past two weeks, announced that the situation in E. Pakistan was 'very critical'.
