Untold Facts

Intimidation from Inside

The cry of the lackey

That Pronob, Shankar and all Indian media had the chorus since the most tragic 25-26 February mayhem of the BDR Head Quarter in Dhaka, it was nothing to wonder that their lackeys from inside Bangladesh have started to sing the same chorus. One of the Sheikh Hasina’s NOTUN MUKH has opened mouth from inside in intimating the 150 million people of Bangladesh that they would call in ‘Friends’ to save and made them stay put in the State power (Daily Ittefaq, Dhaka, 8 April 09). That the statement in open was nothing patriotic should not be a matter of any debate whatsoever.

Friend of Sheikh Hasina

That ‘friend’ would be America, and if Hasina would turn into another Hamid Karzai in the region is somewhat unlikely. The unlikely venture is because the US President Obama is somewhat on the run away from expanding military adventurism in the Muslim countries. Be that as the case may be, America would prefer to have India to venture in Bangladesh in aid of their friends in Dhaka.

Good boys from within

India or their own good boys in Dhaka need not have to openly say so, because, the matter is easily comprehended for Bangladesh is a much smaller country in each and every respect in comparison with much bigger India. It is not only the matter of bigness and smaller, Bangladesh has further disability for being encircled geographically by Indian mighty muscle. These facts are well known both to the Indians and to the Bangladeshis. Whether the insiders would call in the friends for the venture or if the Indians would as well indulge in romanticism in the matter of armed aggression against smaller Bangladesh is a matter for future. But the fact remains that the insiders by their intension to fall back upon the friend for survival is certainly seeking for some moral strength on the one hand and intimidation for psychologically weakening the 150 million patriotic people of Bangladesh, on the other. Two way gain for the insiders.

Sikimization!

People however must wonder if the venture Hasina’s government is up to would lead to Sikimization of Bangladesh that Sikim’s elected leader in 1974 Lendup Darji did venture for liquidation of the until then independent country in the Himalayan region, and now almost a forgotten matter.

Investment of RAW

Older people like me have not forgotten so soon that it matters little if the Pronabs intimidate Bangladesh openly or not. India has the biggest investment for their continuing accruing of gains of vested interests in the person of Hasina. For about six years Delhi not only sustained her and her other family members, husband and children in the best of care, but also provided her the best of grooming for their own utility. That was magnanimity on the part of Indian rulers. But what was not magnanimous but some thing fishy was that they maintained and brainwashed the low IQ person Hasina in their best of all capabilities in the R&AW head quarter in the South Block of Delhi for nearly six years. Could Hasina forget the debt she owes to Delhi? That sort of forgetfulness would not be befitting for that was her most emotionally disturbed times following her father’s tragic end in Dhaka from State power that she has to pay in all possible way the debt burden to the Indian rulers.

Great Game (GG)

Pranob as a Bengali politician and India’s Foreign Affairs Minister had been little careful in use of words for intimidating Bangladesh, but the Bengali retired Indian Army General and the Chief Shankar Roy Chowdhury viewed sustaining Hasina in power as a part of the continuing Great Game (GG) since historical past. This is much more worrying than simple psychological intimidation. Though he meant that the GG started in 1971, it is hardly so but goes beyond.

Victims of GG

It went beyond, and for the Bengal Muslims, at least, back to one century. Bengal; Muslims since the beginning of the British rule in 1757 in the aftermath of the Battle of Pallasey went down and down and the other among the Caste Hindu community despite being minority thrived up and up not solely for their own effort and hard work but mainly for being loyal lackeys in their master-servant joint efforts to cow down the Muslims as a whole throughout not only in Bengal but in the whole of British Indian subcontinent.

East Bengal and the Muslim League

The Bengal Muslims en bloc put some own effort to break the vicious cycle of backwardness first in the beginning of the twentieth century that led to the organization of the Muslim League in 1906 under the philanthropic Nawab of Dhaka Khawja Salimullah. The concrete step taken by the British Government for their own ease of administration of the Bengal Presidency not for any perceived benefit of the Muslims that the Muslim League took as a positive outcome for the Muslims to rise in education, business, jobs etc. But the poorly organized Muslim League based at Dhaka (then spelled Dacca) despite their attempts failed to face up to the machinations of the Calcutta (now spelled Kolkata) based Caste Hindu powerful elite and the better organized Congress Party founded twenty one years earlier than the Muslim League. Thus the new province of East Bengal and Assam disbanded, and so Dhaka lost the status of capital of the new province in 1911 through a royal decree in jubilation of the Congress and Hindu elites and total frustration of the Muslims of whole India.

1947 in GG

1947 turned the leaf of another history that restored the East Bengal province though in some reduced form in area having Dhaka as the capital city once again. The partition of British India in the framework of one Pakistan, despite distance in geographical term and inequality between regions and men and men of various regions continuing, development long left off for the people of East Bengal found some scopes and opportunities for advancement for about a short period of two decades until 1970. The people expected further rapid development that led to 1971 crisis that the people could themselves sort out among themselves but the players of the GG came to do something else. They installed a helpless puppet in Dhaka with no freedom for himself much less the freedom for the then 75 million people of Bangladesh.

Puppet Toppled

Obviously the patriots rose up and toppled the puppet in mid August 1975. The proponents of the GG took 1975 August victorious coup d’etat as the defeat in the GG for India and so they waited for the next of their turn for victory. They had a victory in June 1996 and the puppet continued to run Bangladesh for five years only to prove that they served well the masters across the border. However, the people rose again and defeated the lackeys in the 2001 general election. Since then Indian central intelligence planned and worked with more resoluteness to bring to power the R&AW trained Hasina that they succeeded in 2008 December election, the greatest victory in their GG. Can they afford to loose it soon again? That is what General Shankar as a straight forward highly experienced and retired army man has clearly noted, ‘Delhi can’t afford to let Dhaka slip off its Radar.’

Patriots and the New Faces

The patriotic people of Bangladesh cannot be oblivious of what Delhi intends to do with the entity, identity and sovereignty of Bangladesh. Whether Hasina would have any lesson from India’s gamble for their GG remains to be seen. The end February BDR mayhem must be seen in the same light of India’s GG, and so the NEW MUKH’s intimidation of the patriotic 150 million people of Bangladesh.

Author: M. T. Hussain