A charter of demands enunciated by the awami league for removing disparity between the
two wings of Pakistan West Pakistan
in East Bengal . The Indo-Pak War of 1965 ended with the
execution of Taskent Treaty. To the old grievances of economic disparity added
the complain of negligence and indifference of central government towards the
defence of East Pakistan . Bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman was vocal on this issue.
The leaders of the opposition parties of West
Pakistan convened a national convention at Lahore 6 February 1966 with a
view to ascertain the post-Taskent political trend. Bangabandhu reached Lahore
on 4 February along with the top leaders of Awami League, and the day following
he placed the Six-point Charter of demand before the subject committee as the
demands of the people of East Pakistan. He created pressure to include his
proposal in the agenda of the conference. They rejected the proposal of
Bangabandhu. On the following day the newspapers of West Pakistan
published reports on the Six-point programme, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was
projected as a separatist. Consequently Sheikh Mujib abandoned the conference.
The Six-point programme along with a proposal of
movement for the realisation of the demands was placed before the meeting of
the working committee of Awami League on 21 February 1966 , and the proposal was carried out
unanimously. A booklet on the Six-point Programme with introduction from
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and Tajuddin Ahmad was published. Another booklet
entitled 'Amader Banchar Dabi : 6-dafa Karmasuchi' (Our demands for existence :
6-points Programme) was published in the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and was
distributed in the council meeting of Awami League held on 18 March 1966 .
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Six points
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The constitution should provide for a Federation of
Pakistan in its true sense on the Lahore Resolution and the parliamentary
form of government with supremacy of a Legislature directly elected on the
basis of universal adult franchise.
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The federal government should deal with only two
subjects : Defence and Foreign Affairs, and all other residuary subjects
shall be vested in the federating states.
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Two separate, but freely convertible currencies for
two wings should be introduced ; or if this is not feasible, there should be
one currency for the whole country, but effective constitutional provisions
should be introduced to stop the flight of capital from East to
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The power of taxation and revenue collection shall
be vested in the federating units and the federal centre will have no such
power. The federation will be entitled to a share in the state taxes to meet
its expenditures.
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There should be two separate accounts for the
foreign exchange earnings of the two wings ; the foreign exchange
requirements of the federal government should be met by the two wings equally
or in a ratio to be fixed; indigenous products should move free of duty
between the two wings, and the constitution should empower the units to
establish trade links with foreign countries.
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The opposition leaders of West
Pakistan looked at Mujib's Six-point Programme as a device to
disband Pakistan East Pakistan 22
February 1969 .
The Awami League sought public mandate in favour
of the six point programme in the general elections of 1970 in which Mujib
received the absolute mandate from the people of East Pakistan
in favour of his six point. But Zulfiqar Ali Bhuttu refused to join the session
of the National Assembly scheduled to be held on 3 March 1971 unless a settlement was reached between the
two leaders beforehand. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his party sat in a protracted
dialogue from 15 March 1971 .
The dialogue failed to produce any positive result. The army crackdown of 25
March sealed the fate of the six point including the fate of Pakistan
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