Bangladesh Uprising Leaders Join Hands with Frankly Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami as a Junior Partner

[Sukla Sen]

'NCP finally joins with Jamaat ahead of polls'

<https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/399761/ncp-finally-joins-with-jamaat-ahead-of-polls>

[The NCP, or National Citizens Party, is a brand new political outfit that roughly represents the forces that spearheaded the last year's "July Revolution" ousting the authoritarian Hasina regime, (somewhat unconvincingly) claiming to nevertheless carry the legacy of the '71 Liberation War.

The Jamaat-e-Islami -- more popularly known as Jamaat (or "community") -- is by far the most major Islamist organisation in Bangladesh.

It had outright opposed the historic Liberation War in 1971 that gave birth to Bangladesh -- mightily aided by the direct military intervention by neighbouring India led by Indira Gandhi -- out of the erstwhile East Pakistan.

The birth of Bangladesh was an act of decisive assertion of the linguistic-ethnic identity of the overwhelming majority of the people of that land battling the oppressive rule of the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan", headquartered in Islamabad, out to brutally suppress that distinctive linguistic-ethnic identity.

Jamaat had operated as the active local collaborator of the genocidal Pakistani Army along with the extremely infamous Razakars.

That the NCP has now openly joined hands with the (unbanned) Jamaat very much accepting its leading role has hardly left any room for any confusion.

Those sections of the Left forces -- on both sides of the border -- that had extended their uncritical and at times even euphoric support to the ("anti-fascist") "Revolution" completely ignoring its Islamist -- and thereby utterly anti-democratic orientations -- have now shit on their face!?

Or the fact that the NCP is facing some serious rumbling would provide a figleaf?]

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