I agree with Mohiuddin Anwar about Professor Mannan's Awami League biased write ups and normally ignore reading them but lately his article on Awami League drew my attention and I wrote a review on it.
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A Short Review of Professor Abdul Mannan's Article:"Awami League – the party that still matters."
Abid Bahar
Professor Mannan's above mentioned article is a genuine portral of the Congress party but as soon as he began the discussion of Muslim League, he demonstrates biases and makes sweeping judgements about the later as if he he follows an Awami pro-Indian bias. This is clear when Prof. Mannan not realizing the historical fact that if there was no Muslim League, there wouldn't be any Muslim Awami League, and also there won't be any Awami League party and then the birth of Bangladesh.
Additionally,, if there was no Muslim League and the creation of Pakistan, (like in Kashmir or even worse than Kashmir,) there would be a continued Indian genocide on East Bengali people. Isn't it true that East Bengalis enmass willingly voted for Pakistan to eventually create Bangladesh? True, subsequently, we fooled both Pakistan and India in our ultimate goal to achieve what is today's Bangladesh. 2. In the above Professor Mannan said only part of history not the whole history leaving many known holes. The biggest one for example, he failed to mention that Mujib was the one who in 1975 destroyed Awami League. Mujib's BKSAL one party system and the dissolution of the Awami League was disapproved by Osmani and experts claim that Mujib's killing was led by his more "democratic-minded Awami League colleagues"who opposed the authoritarian BKSAL and its oppressive Rakkhi Bahini.Professor Mannan continues: "Though Sheikh Hasina revived the party and brought it to power twice amidst tremendous hostile conditions, it cannot be said today's Awami League is as efficient as it was in the days of Bangabandhu or his predecessors. However still people look up to this party in their days of despair and national crisis.
The prof says, "Out of the three oldest parties of this sub-continent – INC, ML and AL – ML has died a natural death as it was founded on extremely weak premises. The two other survived many storms and continue to push ahead. Let us hope on this day AL and its leadership bury all the self-seeking petty politics behind and look forward to building a nation that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and his colleagues dreamt of during those difficult days of the party. Happy Birth Day to Awami League, and felicitations to all those that have brought the party from strength to more strength."
In the above statement, surely Professor Mannan skillfully fooled everybody except some analytical thinkers. After reading the above two paragraphs, having lots of ommissions and biases by the Prof, I came to realize that the Prof. is an Awami historian who wrote his article for mostly nonhistorians certainly then for Awami Mujib hero-worshippers. If he was trained as a historian and wrote it for student's of history, he would have mentioned about Mujib who established the BKSAL one party system and took all the measures to destroy the great Awami League originally founded by Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani.
I believe Professor Abdul Mannan is a teacher of commerce and has a long crediential but he has been unsucessfully trying to write Bangladesh history with his Awami bias which will be clear in the following:
1. Firstly, the prof mentions about the dissolution of the United Front, but failed to mention Mujib's role in the killing of Deputy Speaker Shahed Ali'. This event was shown by most historians as the prime reason behind Pakistani rulers dissolving the Bengali United Front.
Professor Mannan wrote: "From 1949 to 2011 Awami League has come a long way, battling seemingly insurmountable odds on its way. The support of the people has always been its main strength. It spearheaded the creation of an independent country, Bangladesh. It may not be out of place to mention that once in a while it lost way during this long journey. After the tragic assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib on the fateful night of August 15, 1975 Awami League leadership to some extent went into oblivion till the return of Sheikh Hasina on May 17, 1981."
3. In the above Professor Mannan instead of identifying the truth appreciates Mujib the destroyer of Awami League.
The prof says, "Out of the three oldest parties of this sub-continent – INC, ML and AL – ML has died a natural death as it was founded on extremely weak premises. The two other survived many storms and continue to push ahead. Let us hope on this day AL and its leadership bury all the self-seeking petty politics behind and look forward to building a nation that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and his colleagues dreamt of during those difficult days of the party. Happy Birth Day to Awami League, and felicitations to all those that have brought the party from strength to more strength."
Thanks Hasina for reviving the Awami League but no thanks to Mujib for destroying the mass party Awami League in favor of the one party BKSAL.
In retrospect, taking about the Awami League, our hearty thanks to the mass leader Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani who like many world famous mass leaders was a selfless leader and all his life stayed in hut in a proliterian existance who also as the founder of the Awami League and for his other contributions should be recognized as one of the founding fathers of Bangladesh.
Mr. KMS Alam,Let the readers decide about Prof. Mannan's writing. He didnot criticize any wrogdoings of the Oppressive Hasina regime in his writing. Hasina regime is currently fulfilling the BKSAL idiology of her late father with three fourth majority in the Parliament, that is very bad for the nation. Democracy willbe the real victim of Hasina's action in near future. In Bangladesh, if you donot support Hasina's policy yoiu are nobopdy, entire system of government BKSALIZED including the Judiciery. I am confident that democracy loving people of Bangladesh will react when it is needed, make no doubt about it. I do strongly believe that ,.Hasina never toloerates criticizm like all other Dictators. I understand his position that ,crticizing Netri will do no good to Prof Mannan if he lives in Banfgladesh.We Bangladeshis living abroad are lucky that we can criticize any oppressive regime without any fear of prosecution. We saw how Hasina's critics were punished physicaly/mentally in Bangladesh.There are very few brave writers now in Bangladesh who can criticise Hasina's wrongdoings/misrule freely.Thanks and Regards,M.A.
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From: KMS Alam <kms_alam@yahoo.com>
To: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
Cc: abman1971@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [KHABOR] Warm wishes
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
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