CPB Pays Homage to Sheikh Mujib- Ekota Special Correspondant

Communist Party of Bangladesh paid homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman founding leader of Bangladesh on the occasion of National Mourning Day,August 15 2009. On the same day in 1975 President Mujib was brutally assassinated along with his family members by a group of army officers. CPB President Manzurul Ahsan Khan said Mujib was killed by foreign & domestic conspirator to undo the achievement of the liberation struggle of 1971. He demanded immediate implementation of the court verdict,punishment of the convicts and also to identify and expose the international and national conspirators involved in the assassination plot. Manzur was giving his presidential speech at a meeting organized at the party’s central office in Dhaka. The meeting was also addressed by Party leader Shahidullah Choudhury, Morshed Ali, Prof. A.N Rasheda,Ahsan Habib Lavlu Ruhin Hossain Prince and Advocate Ziad Al Malum. Manzurul Ahsan Khan said the independence struggle of Bangladesh was a big set back for the US strategy in the region.Mujib took certain progressive measures which were disliked by reactionary circles.Imperialists were planning to take revenge in collaboration with the local reactionaries. Manzur said 34yrs have passed.,It is high time that all classified documents of that period with the US state department, CIA and other such organizations of UK, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh should be made open to public. Right to information is a fundamental human right which must be honored by all countries big or small. He said Bangabandhu was an outstanding leader of the people of Bangladesh who fought relentlessly for democracy, national rights and social progress. His personal acquaintance and relationship with the communists in prison and outside played a vital role in the making of his mental make up. Mujib was a dynamic leader who developed himself along with the mass movement and took radical position. Corruption, in-fighting and conspiracies within and outside the party led to his tragic assassination. CPB under the leadership of Comrade Farhad and others took the first initiatives to build up united struggle against the brutal murder and shift towards right reaction. Manzurul Ahsan Khan said after independence Bangabandhu advanced along the line of secularism, democracy, active non alignment, leading role of public sector with a mixed economy and progressive reforms. These progressive measures were being opposed from the very beginning by killer Mushtaq(who became President after the assassination)and other rightist elements in AL.At prsentAwami League seems to follow the line of Mushtaq. Eulogizing Mujib while abandoning his progressive ideas is an attempt to comodify Mujib for personal aggrandizement. Communists evaluate every leader in the context of his historical and socio-economical phase and class position. Communist own the great heritage of leaders of all the historical movements from Shidhu-Kanu who lead the first anti colonial armed revolt of indigeneous people, leaders of 1^st Independence Struggle(Sepoy Mutiny), Khudiram and Shurjoshen, Gandhi, Sher-e-Bangla Fazlul Haq, Moulana Bhasani, Comrade Moni Singh and many other including Bangabandhu who brought independent Bangladesh into existence. It is the Communist Party which will have to gain enough strength to build up another revolution which will fulfill the dreams of Bangabandhu and the martyrs of our Great Liberation Struggle,and consolidate its achievements.