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549 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড PROGRAMMIE OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT The minimum programme on the basis of which attempt may be made at present to form a national liberation front is as follows: (1)To defeat and drive out the occupation army of the reactionary ruling clique of Pakistan by waging armed struggle. To completely liberate Bangladesh and to build up Bangladesh as an independent sovereign democratic republican state with a view to advancing along the path of socialism. (2)To entrust to the representative legislature elected by the people the sovereign and absolute authority to run the state; to introduce direct election based on universal adult franchise and joint electorate system; to concede the people the right to recall elected representatives; to ensure parliamentary democracy; and to establish a secular democratic stale. (3)To ensure the fundamental rights of the people, namely, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of the press, etc; to ensure enjoyment of those rights by the workers-peasants and other people; to annul all kinds of oppressive laws; to concede full opportunity to the people so that they may actively participate in the determination of state policies; to set up local autonomous bodies elected by the people for managing the local affairs of the cities, towns and villages and to take the help of these bodies in running the government administration. To separate the judiciary from the executive and to entrust to the court the right to determine whether an act is legally valid. (4)To grant equal rights to all citizens irrespective of race, religion and sex and not to discriminate against anybody on religious or ideological grounds. (5)To ensure to all citizens the rights to hold their own belief and religious faith and observe their religious rites. To refrain from interfering in any body's religious beliefs. To ban all kinds of communal propaganda. To ban all communal parties as well as all such parties which have served the enemy. (6)To remove from the administrative machinery of the state all such officials who are either trained or connected or are subservient to Pakistan's ruling clique and foreign imperialists. To restrict the powers of bureaucrats, police, etc. (7)To build up the defense army of Bangladesh as a genuinely patriotic and people-oriented army. (8)To adopt necessary measures for the political, economic, cultural i.e., total development of various tribal peoples. (9)To build up heavy and basic industries in the state sector; to build up the state sector as the main determining force in the field of industries; to establish the authority of the popular representative legislature over the state owned industries; to ensure participation of the workers of state-owned industries in the management of their respective industries. To nationalize banks, insurance, jute industry and trade, foreign trade and main transport system with a view to collecting capital for building up