“But what if anyone other than Mujib had presented the Six-Point to the country? Someone almost did. It was Mujib’s feeling that Shah Azizur Rahman, who had joined the Awami League in 1964, would be doing a better job than he by raising the autonomy plan in Lahore. He was dissuaded by Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia, who saw a whole lot of logic in Mujib’s rather than Shah Aziz’s presenting the Bengali argument at the opposition conference. The rest is, of course, history.”
Daily Star Article June 7, 2006 by Syed Badrul Ahsan, Executive Editor, Dhaka Courier
