| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
| স্বাধীন সার্বভৌম বাংলাদেশের পক্ষে বংগীয় প্রাদেশিক মুসলিম লীগের সম্পাদক জনাব আবুল হাশিমের প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি | মর্নিং নিউজ, ২৯শে এপ্রিল ১৯৪৭। সূত্র: শীলা সেন, মুসলিম পলিটিক্স ইন বেঙ্গল পৃষ্ঠা-২৮১ |
২৯শে এপ্রিল, ১৯৪৭ |
B. The Press Statement of Abul Hashim, Secretary, Bengal Provincial Muslim League, Calcutta, 29 April 1947.
Time has come when truth must be told. Surrendering to vulgar thinking for cheap popularity and opportunist leadership is intellectual prostitution. Only around 1905 Bengal was the thought-leader of India and successfully challenges the might of the then British Government. It is a pity that Bengal today is intellectually bankrupt and is begging and borrowing thought and guidance from alien heroes. I wonder what has happened to the Hindus of Bengal who produced men like Surendranath Banerjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Ashutosh Mukherjee, Chittaranjan Das and Subhash Chandra Bose.
The present revolutionary thinking of India owes its birth to Bengal. True revolution does not lie in internecine killing but in creating revolution in thinking and feeling Bengal must shake off her inferiority complex and defeatist mentality, revert to her past traditions, rise again to the heights of her genuine and mould her destiny. Sentiments and emotions have no place in serious thinking. Temporary insanity should not be allowed to influence our future decisions.
Bengal today is standing at the cross roads-one leading to freedom and glory and the other to eternal bondage and abounding disgrace. Bengal must make a decision here and now. There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the floods leads on to fortune. Opportunity once lost may come no more.
Cent per cent alien capital, both Indian and Anglo-American, exploiting Bengal is invested in West Bengal. The growing socialist tendencies amongst us have created fears of expropriation in the minds of our alien exploiters. They have the prudence to visualize difficulties in a free and united Bengal. It is in the interest of the alien capital that Bengal should be divided, crippled and incapacitated so that neither part thereof may have strength enough to resist it in future.
From the nature of the communal disturbances in Bengal I am of the opinion that these are being engineered and encouraged by Anglo-Indian wested interests and their Indian allies. In the ordinary course of business, respectable and reliable parties find it difficult to secure license for fire arms. But immense quantities of dangerous weapons of British and American origin, left over in India, are being lavishly distributed among the Hindu and Muslim hooligans, conscious and unconscious agents of the partition of Bengal. A big gun of Bengal, who has developed an obnoxious craze for the Premiership of Bengal, once remarked to me that since he has no future and his everything was past, he has thus justified his opportunism. Fossils of Bengal may find immediate gain in her partition but what has happened to her youth, whose entire destiny lies in the future? Are
