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What makes the Sheik so unpopular with West Pakistanis is the fact that for more than 23 years he has been the leading advocate of purbodesh (regional autonomy) for East Pakistan. In last December's elections, purbodesh was Mujib's chief issue. After visiting the cyclone-devastated Ganges Delta region just before the general elections, he declared: "If the polls bring us frustration, we will owe it to the million who have died in the cyclone to make the supreme sacrifice of another million lives, if need be, so that we can live as free people...
...Pledge of Purbodesh. The big man at the constitutional convention will be "Mujib" Rahman, whose Awami League captured all but two of the 153 seats contested in East Pakistan. Seven East Pakistan seats reserved for women and nine more seats in the cyclone-ravaged coastal areas will be decided in a few weeks. The Awami League is virtually certain to win all 16, pushing its total in the projected National Assembly to a commanding...
What forced Ayub to hasten his departure more than anything else was a challenge from East Pakistan's popular Sheik Mujibur Rahman. The impatient "Mujib" threatened to carry to the National Assembly his demands for purbodesh, a kind of associate statehood, for East Pakistan's Bengalis, which would seriously weaken the central government in Rawalpindi. If Mujib's East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber...
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