Call to traders
Turning to the business community. Sheikh Mujib said they in the past had failed to rise to the occasion and did not side with these workers, peasants and students during struggle for the realisation of the legitimate rights of the people of Bangla Desh.
He hoped that they would not fail if in future the people of Bangla Desh plunged themselves into a struggle for establishment of their rights. Otherwise, he said, “you will cease to exist, or even if you exist you will live just like slaves.”
He told the non-Bengali businessmen in Bangla Desh that it is wrong to say that his party will not allow them to trade in Bangla Desh after realisation of the Six-Point Programme. “You trade here and we never tell you to leave here. But please stop the flight of capital” he requested them.
Slogan explained.
Sheikh Mujib said that the “Joy-Bangla” (victory of Bengal) was not a political slogan. Sheikh Sahib said that the slogan was a slogan for autonomy, economic and social freedom of Bangla Desh. It was also a slogan for the right of living and freedom of culture he added.
