Guard against conspiracies

July 21, 1972

BANGABANDHU INAUGURATES BCL CONFERENCE

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today asks the student community to remain ever vigilant against conspirators who are working to undo the independence. He asks them to remain prepared to shed more blood, if necessary.

Speaking at the first national conference of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at the Suhrawardy Udyan today Bangabandhu explains to students four guiding principles of the state and calls upon them to concentrate all their efforts on implementing these principles.

The prime minister calls upon the students to devote their energy to studies so that they can build their character and become worthy citizens of Bangladesh. He urges them to go to villages and take the leadership in building a new society free from exploitation. The student community should take up the task of nation-building with a missionary zeal, he adds.

He further asks the students to learn manners and show respect to the elders. Because, he says, the future generation would behave with them the same way they would be doing now.

WORKERS MUST EXERCISE TOLERANCE

Tajuddin Ahmad, minister for finance and planning, today fervently calls upon the workers and employees of Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka to exercise utmost tolerance and dismiss the charge that democracy forbids socialism. Democracy comprises harmony and tolerance proceeded by consent of all to arrive at a decision. The decision should conform to the welfare of all, he adds.

3 NEW BSC COASTERS

Bangladesh Shipping Corporation with its newly acquired three Russian coasters, each with 1,600-tonne cargo carrying capacity, will begin three promotional routes from Chattogram soon. These three vessels were provided by the Soviet Union to Bangladesh as a gift in pursuance of the agreement signed by the prime ministers of the two countries in March, 1972. The new routes to be served by these coasters are between Chattogram and Ceylonese ports, between Chattogram and ports in east coast of India and between Chattogram and the ports in Myanamr, Malaysia and Singapore. In the past, these routes were not adequately served by the national carrier and the lack of it had adversely affected the trade of Bangladesh with the countries of South and South-East Asia.

SOURCES: July 22, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.