Saturday, June 24, 2006

National Awami Party (NAP) & the Nawab Family

I read somewhere that NAP was born in Ahsan Manzil. Was anyone from the DNF involved with NAP? Please see the brief history of NAP below.
Thanks,
Anas Khwaja

National Awami Party From the mid-1950s the Awami League suffered a growing conflict between two of its leaders, HS Suhrawardy and Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani around the issues of foreign policy and regional autonomy. Bhasani, a populist leader of great influence among the peasants and workers, opposed HS Suhrawardy for his pro-American foreign policy and his lack of support to the autonomy of East Bengal. This eventually led to a split within the Awami League when Bhasani in a convention held in Dhaka on 25-26 July 1957, floated the National Awami Party (NAP) with the support of the left-leaning leaders and workers of the AL. Bhasani was elected the president of the new party. Within a short time after its formation and then after its revival in March 1964, NAP emerged as an important left party of the country.

The party, however, fragmented into the NAP (Bhasani) and the pro-Moscow NAP (Wali) in 1967 following the Sino-Soviet conflict. The pro-Chinese party led by Maulana Bhasani had its major support in former East Pakistan, while the pro-Moscow NAP was strong in former West Pakistan. Maulana Bhasani remained a popular leader and his party played an important role in the mass movement of 1969. It was the first party to oppose the Awami League in 1972. But by 1988, the party split into as many as 13 separate parties and factions. The pro-Moscow NAP also underwent a similar process of fragmentation during the 1970s and 1980s

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If I may not be wrong to best of my knowledge Nawabzada Khawaja Ahsunullah Son of Nawab Sir Salimullah was member of NAP. I Think POP Chachuu can enlighten on this subject.

Khawaja Saifullah
Son of Late Nawabzada Khawaja hafizullah