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Acknowledging Indian help Link

Posted on March 18, 2012

Shamsuzzuha

Bangladesh will be celebrating its Independence Day on 26th of March. The day will be utilised to acknowledge Indian help in creating the state of Bangladesh.

Hasina Wajid’s government which had regained power through Indian money and clandestine support of Indian intelligence agency has invited Lt Gen (R) J F R Jacobs of the Indian Army to honour him for his services in creating Bangladesh.

The General had served as the Eastern Military Commander at that time when 1971 war took place. While talking to the ‘Indian Express’, General Jacob thanked the Bangladeshis for acknowledging Indian help in creating a separate homeland for them.

This has not been the first time that Bangladesh acknowledged India’s clandestine support in crafting out Bangladesh. Hasina Wajid is on record to have acknowledged the Indian connection when she revealed that she was a privy to formal plans devised by his father in London in 1969 to secede eastern wing from Pakistan and re-name it as Bangladesh. General Manekshaw, the Indian army chief wrote in one of his books that India had recruited around 80,000 Hindus to help Bengali secessionists free Bangladesh.
Also one of the only surviving conspirators of ‘Agartala Conspiracy’ Colonel ® Shawkat Ali while giving an interview to ‘Dhaka Courier’ in February this year confessed that, “Until recently it was believed that this case was a ploy to get rid of Sheikh Mujib, when in reality it was a case filed on very concrete and true accusations. We did conspire for secession of East Pakistan! The accusations were 100 per cent true”. The Colonel is serving as Deputy Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament. The increasing acceptance of the ‘Conspiracy’ has taken me back in the history and completely saddened me as I remembered my Bengali friends with whom I shared a very affectionate time while being in Bangladesh.

India’s role in dismembering Pakistan was very much known to our Government and the military then however, it was only for our Bengali brothers that it was able to materialize its sinister plans. It had hoped that by doing this intervention in the internal affairs of Pakistan it would achieve two aims one: that it will have a much weakened enemy (Pakistan) on one side and two: that it will have a friendly country (Bangladesh) on the other side that will also act as an extension of its economy. Whereas it failed to tame Pakistan for its strength, it did manage to have ingress in the Bangladesh’s affairs making it subservient to its hegemonic designs.

It has already starved Bangladesh by diverting waters of River Ganga and now forcing to accept its terms for granting transit rights through Bangladesh. While the Awami League is in power India is likely to achieve its strategic objectives in that part of the world. The close association between the present Government with India has also become a point of concern for educated Bengalis who foresee India turning their country virtually into a vassal state.