In this connection he referred to “jail-zoolum” of Ayub regime of him and other Awami Leaguers. He told the Awami Leaguers that the struggle had not ended, it had only started and asked them to remain prepared for sacrifice for the sake of posterity.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman restating his party's stand on framing the constitution referred to the oath taken by his party MNAs and MPAs at Ramna Race Course for framing it on the basis of six-point and 11-point programmes.
He said that in the joint meeting of the Awami League Parliamentarians in the National and Provincial Assemblies and in the Party Working Committee Meeting during the middle of February “decisions would be taken on our future coarse action”.
The Awami League Chief referred to the acute food shortage, price spiral in the province and recent cyclone devastation, and said “we can't allow our people to die and to be exploited.” He listed various problems being faced by the people and said that his party wanted to take away the resources from the exploiters and distribute those among the people. He said that after elections they had hoped to frame a Constitution, and to take over the responsibility of administration and “to go all-out to solve the problems of the people.”
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman said that the ruling clique and the exploiters had created such multifarious problems in different spheres of life that even if his party came to power it would be terribly difficult to solve those problems immediately. He said that Bengal I had been turned into a market and colony, and its food problem had been made so acute that the province was now having an annual deficit of 2,000,000 tons of food grains.
The Awami League Chief asked his party-men to remain prepared, adding: “If time come I will give a call to you. Power has to come to us and none can stop it. When power comes to us, we will go all out to solve the problems of our people.” He said he was hopeful of a bright and prosperous future of the Bengalees. “We will succeed because we are fighting for truth.”
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