বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (প্রথম খণ্ড)/৪৪
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| পূর্ব বাংলার গণতান্ত্রিক এবং সামগ্রিক পরিবেশ সংক্রান্ত প্রধানমন্ত্রীর কাছে পেশকৃত প্রশ্নমালার স্মারকলিপি | গণতান্ত্রিক ফেডারেশন | ৩রা নভেম্বর, ১৯৫০ |
Will Janab Liaquat Ali Khan answer the following Questions?
1. In view of the fact that the Historic Lahore Resolution is the basis of Pakistan envisaging autonomous and sovereign states in different regions, why have the principles thereof been completely ignored in the recommendations of the B. P. C.?
2. Don't you admit that East Pakistan being separated from the other wing by two thousand miles of foreign territory must have complete autonomy in all its affairs for its stability and prosperity?
*3. It has been stated in the Objective Resolution that the Sovereignty of Pakistan belongs to its people. Has not the provision of suspension of the constitution by the Head of the State nullified the very basis of the Objective Resolution and made the people Subservient to the whims of the Head of the State?
4. Don't you admit that the power to suspend the constitution is fraught with grave danger to the rights and liberties of the people as it is calculated to create a positive tendency in the Executive to lapse into dictatorship?
5. What is the idea behind creating an Upper House-the relic of medieval feudalism and of giving equal powers to both the houses of legislature? Is it not designed to curve the majority into a minority and to retard all progressive legislations?
6. Is it not absolutely arbitrary and in flagrant violation of the demand of sixty-two percent of the population to recommend Urdu as the only State language whereby the claim of Bengali has been completely turned down?
7. Is it not absolutely undemocratic to make provincial ministry responsible to the central cabinet instead of to the provincial legislatures?
8. Don't you admit that the suspension of the right of Habeas Corpus for persons detained without trial in court is absolutely incompatible with any concept of democracy?
9. Don't you admit that the usurpation of the control by the centre of the affairs of the East Pakistan for the last three years has caused disastrous consequences on the economic and cultural life of the people in the following amongst others?
(i) (a) Abnormal fall in the income of Jute-114 crores in 1948, 75 crores in 1949 and only 35 crores in 1950? (b) Fall in the price of jute available to the growers, much below the fixed minimum due to the bungling of the jute Rs. 12 per maund in East Bengal, whereas it sells at Rs.55 on the other side of the border.
(c) Does not the Jute Board serve the only interest of the Ispahanis. Haroons and the Adamjees as against that of the growers?
(ii) Fall in the price of betelnut from Rs.75 to Rs.10 per maund whereas it sells at Rs.90 in the Indian Union.
(iii) Complete collapse of the Primary, Secondary and University education for the inability of the provincial government to finance due to the taking over of all the sources of Revenue of East Bengal by the centre-whereas a number of Universities are being opened in West Pakistan at the cost of the Central Government.
(iv) Non-development of once-flourishing cottage industries such as hosiery, comb, conch and button manufacturing and brass and bell-metal wares due to the wrong Import and Export policy of the Government.
((v) Negligence in the development of Chittagong Port kept East Bengal subservient to Indian Union which seriously affected the industrial and commercial life of the people.
Federation.