THE history is replete with literature on India’s role in dismemberment of Pakistan, and its recent engagements with Bangladesh showed that it was using every opportunity to divide people of Bangladesh and Pakistan.
As India hosts a number of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1971 India-Pakistan war that led to the liberation of Bangladesh, its media widely reported that the Narendra Modi government was using the golden jubilee celebrations in Bangladesh to create chasm between the two Muslim countries – Pakistan and Bangladesh.
For the first time a tri-service contingent of 122 members from Indian Armed Forces will participate at the Victory Day Parade in Dhaka.
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will also be participating in the grand celebrations of victory day.
According to the NDTV “President Kovind will present his counterpart two replicas of Russian made T-55 tanks and Mig-21 vintage aircraft used during the 1971 war as gifts,” an official familiar with the visit told the Indian channel.
The one year long celebrations kicked off in 2020 after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended India and Bangladesh virtual leaders’ summit on December 17, 2020 where he announced that India would be celebrating a “Golden Victory Year” in the run-up to Bangladesh’s 50th Victory Day “during which many events will be organized across India.”
he Narendra Modi government is planning to hold mega-celebrations at the India Gate complex from December 14-16, where Bangladeshi fighters, who played a crucial role in defeating the Pakistan army during the 1971 war, will be paying tribute to their brothers who lost their lives in the war, army sources told India Today.
Narendra Modi visited Dhaka to celebrate the 50th Independence Day as well as the birth centenary of the country’s founding father killed by Mukti Bahini on 15 August 1975 just after three years of independence.
Modi also met the country’s Mukti Bahini Force, the brainchild of RAW, and sent a strong message of Indian involvement in a sustained plan to dismember erstwhile East Pakistan.
Indian involvement in creation of Bangladesh can also confirmed with admission of Modi who while addressing Bangladesh’s 50th Independ-ence anniversary at the National Parade Square recalled the role played by Indian Army in the war.—APP
