DNA Exclusive: How MA Jinnah’s folly led to creation of Bangladesh, know here

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Bangladesh for a two-day go to, his first for the reason that coronavirus outbreak. PM Modi reached Dhaka at round 10:30 within the morning, the place his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina obtained him on the airport to welcome him. He participated within the fiftieth anniversary celebration of Bangladesh’s Independence. 

Bangladesh accomplished 50 years of Independence from Pakistan and the hero of the struggle was Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. In 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the hero of Bangladesh’s independence, and his household had been brutally murdered in his personal nation. At that point, Sheikh Hasina, his daughter was in Germany.

Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary on Friday (March 26) analysed the importance of at the present time for Bangladesh and the way Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s mistake led to the creation of the nation.

In the yr 1948, throughout his first and final go to to East Pakistan, Jinnah had made the error by declaring overtly that Urdu would be the official language of the entire of Pakistan.

Jinnah believed that Islam adopted by Sindhi Muslims, Punjabi Muslims, Pathans and Bengali Muslims would have the option to unite below the widespread language Urdu. 

But in doing so, he made an enormous mistake when he didn’t perceive the temper of then East Pakistan as Bengalis felt their identification was below menace. 

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was born on March 17, 1920 within the village of Tungipara in Gopalganj district of Bengal. He grew to become a component of lively politics in 1940, when he joined All India Muslim Student Federation. This was additionally the time when the Lahore session of the Muslim League first handed a decision from India a couple of separate nation from Pakistan after which Mohammed Ali Jinnah was main it. 

In the yr 1949 the East Pakistan Awami League celebration was fashioned. The formation of this celebration was additionally vital as a result of Mohammad Ali Jinnah had visited East Pakistan a yr earlier after which he had introduced that Urdu can be the official language of Pakistan. This led to a serious political battle. 

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was difficult the actual fact the federal government was being run from West Pakistan. He additionally gained the provincial election in East Pakistan in 1954 and reached the Legislative Assembly, additional, in 1956 he was additionally the Minister of Industries and Labor of East Pakistan.

However, in 1958, when the then President of Pakistan, General Ayub Khan carried out martial legislation in the entire nation then the sensation of disatisfaction and despair in East Pakistan elevated significantly. 

At that point Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was additionally arrested and remained in jail until 1961. However, after his launch he continued to oppose martial legislation and he was arrested once more in 1962.

In Sheikh Mujibur Rehman’s journey from a frontrunner to being known as the ‘father of Bangladesh’ his battle by no means actually ended. 

In 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and there was rather a lot of dissatisfaction in opposition to him within the Army. As a consequence of this, on August 15, 1975, some troops of the military performed an operation in opposition to him in Dhaka. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman had three homes in Dhaka and the military raided all of them and killed him and his household.

However, after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman his daughter Sheikh Hasina was given political asylum in India below Indira Gandhi’s rule. Hasina had moved to Delhi along with her household.

Friday’s occasion on the event of the fiftieth anniversary of Bangladesh was devoted to its courageous son and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was rendered emotional as she remembered the entire story.