Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dreamt about the country’s independence, so he wrote a letter about it on March 25 in 1971.
“We have found at least two formats of that written speech,” Emeritus professor Anisuzzaman said at a memorial lecture organised by Asiatic Society Bangladesh yesterday.
Mujib in the first letter mentioned, “Bangladesh is independent. I call upon people of Bangladesh, wherever you might be and with whatever you have, to resist the army of occupation to the last.”
And in the second format, he wrote, “I appeal and order you all in the name of Almighty Allah to fight to the last drop of blood to liberate the country.”
Professor Anisuzzaman said he got the second version at that time and then he sent the copy to the newspapers. “I can’t find any reason for raising any question about the letter.”
He was suprised as some say that Mujib did not want independence and he refused to fight and preferred to be in jail.
At this point he disagreed with them and told the audience that the syndrome of runaway in a crisis was not found in Mujib’s political career.
