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Bangabandhu – The People’s Protagonist-61
‘Friendship to all, malice to none’
Dr. Atiur Rahman
25th May, 2021 01:42:43
‘Friendship to all, malice to none’ was the core mantra of Bangabandhu’s foreign policy. This principled stand on foreign relations originated in the early phase of his political career. He was opposed to Pakistan taking an explicit foreign policy in favour of pro-US defence pacts when he was still a young leader during the mid-1950s.
Reacting to Pakistan signing a couple of such treaties in 1954, Bangabandhu wrote, “The newly created state of Pakistan should have followed a neutral and independent foreign policy. We should not have made enemies of any country. It was our duty to become friends with all countries of the world. It should have been a sin for us to even think of joining any military block since we should help maintain peace in the world and since peace is imperative to ensure the economic welfare of the people of a country.”(Sheik
Bangabandhu – The People’s Protagonist-54
Bangabandhu’s socialism and first Five-Year Plan
Dr. Atiur Rahman
6th April, 2021 10:39:32
The First Five-Year Plan drew heavily from one of the four basic principles of the constitution: socialism as envisioned by Bangabandhu. This socialism was purely indigenous. Bangabandhu was a born pragmatist and could adjust to new realities using his extraordinary intuition. He was not a communist. But he believed in “socialism and not in capitalism.” (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ‘The Unfinished Memoirs’, UPL, Fourth Impression, 2019, p. 237).
He, in fact, provided the four pillars of the constitution nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism on the very first day he touched the ground of independent Bangladesh on January 10, 1972. He talked about these pledges even during his short stop-over in Delhi on his way home from London. Strikingly, he combined socialism with democracy to propound a new paradigm on the socialistic tran