পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৩৭

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705 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড Rapport New Delhi would be happy to see Mujib's supporters settle for greater autonomy and shelve the talk of an independent Bangladesh. But since things have gone beyond the point of return, all would wait for a decisive end. There is close co-ordination and rapport between New Delhi, Washington and Moscow. It would be of some interest to know that when a veteran Bengali revolutionary (he lives in West Bengal) met the Prime Minister, she told him that both Mr. Podgorny and Mr. Nixon were prevailing upon Gen. Yahya Khan 10 stop the genocide. This was a couple of days before the Podgorny letter. Everyone seemed to know it was coming. How would New Delhi look at an independent Bangladesh? The present leadership, might be replaced in Fast Bengal by a younger, radical leadership. Few countries would like a leftist leadership bid for control of Bangladesh. If a right or centrist leadership takes over, it necessarily will have to look to one or both the super powers for massive economic aid to reconstruct the economy of the new nation. Instead of the two super powers operating in two nations in the sub-continent, they would have to operate in there. In terms of India's security two "Pakistan", in the place of one makes little difference. But if a powerful leftist movement grows in Bangladesh, neither India nor the super powers would countenance such a situation. Once East Bengal is independent the Chinese, who are keeping their options; would have no difficulty extending arms help to the left there. These are the "fears" openly expressed in informed quarters in New Delhi. Outside this, there is little concern in New Delhi for Bangladesh or for Cyclon. It is a strange coincidence that the "left-of-centre" or "left-oriented" Ceylon government (which in some ways is a model for Mrs. Gandhi's!) has used more drastic measures against the "Che Guevarists" than the CPI-M-dominated United Front government in West Bengal did against the Naxalbari rebels. It might suit the Communists and Trotskyites of Ceylon (now in a strange united front) to denounce the Che Guevarists while Mrs. Bandaranaike does not feel called upon to substantiate her charge that the whole movement is backed by a foreign agency. A government that claims to be left cannot tolerate any challenge from the left. The right wing is alright anywhere. The two Establishment, communist parties in India should have no difficulty in denouncing the Che Guevarists of Ceylon just as they have no difficulty in demanding recognition of Bangladesh. Between Bangladesh and the insurgency that is being crushed in Ceylon, the two communist parties of India should find themselves bewildered. The Indian communists never grasped the national question in any case and left it to Moscow to do all the thinking. When the Cabinet Mission visited India, the CPI pleaded for 1C constituent assemblies for the country. Earlier, they had espoused the cause of a "Sikh homeland" in keeping with their support for the two-nation theory. When the Soviet thinking on the national question in India changed, the CPI leadership became the perfect bourgeois nationalists and took national cauvinistic positions on every issue. Armed struggle in Bangladesh and the insurgency in Ceylon are, objectively, two unwelcome things to any communist party functioning within the parliamentary system. The First has to be supported for one set of reasons but certainly dot because the communists parties love any armed struggle in the sub-continent. The second has to be denounced because insurgency anywhere in the sub-continent is disconcerting to those who believe in peaceful transition and parliamentary democracy