election campaign

Election campaign

East Pakistan

The constant public meetings of the Awami League in East Pakistan and the Pakistan People’s Party in Western Pakistan paying attention huge crowds. The Awami League a Bengali nationalist party mobilizes support in East Pakistan on the basis of its Six Points Program which was the main hold in the party proposal. In East Pakistan a massive majority of the Bengali nation superior the Awami League under Shaikh Mujibur Rahman. The party expected a huge percentage of the popular vote in East Pakistan and emerged as the biggest party in the nation as a whole ahead the exclusive mandate of Pakistan in conditions both of seats and of votes.

The Pakistan People’s Party unsuccessful to win any seats in East Pakistan. On the other hand the Awami League had failed to gather any seats in West Pakistan. The Awami League breakdown to win any seats in the west was used by the leftists and democratic socialists led by Zulfiqar Bhutto who argue that Mujib had received no mandate or support from West Pakistan.

The leaders of Pakistan all from West Pakistan and PPP leaders powerfully opposite the idea of an East Pakistani led government. Many in Pakistan predicted that the Awami League controlled government would supervise the passageway of a new constitution with a simple majority. Bhutto expressed his infamous phrase "Udhar tum idhar hum" (there you here me) thus dividing the Pakistan first time verbally.

The same attitudes and emotions were also feel in East Pakistan whereas East Pakistanis engrossed the feeling and reached to the end that Pakistan had been benefited with economic opportunities investments and social increase would quickly throw out any East Pakistanis from obtain those opportunities.

Some Bengalis sided with the Pakistan Peoples' Party and had spoken no support for the Awami League supporting tacitly or openly Bhutto and the democratic socialists such as Jalaludin Abdur Rahim an significant Bengali in Pakistan and mentor of Bhutto who was afterward frightened into jail by Bhutto Ghulam Azam.

Numerous prominent people from West Pakistan supported handing over power to the Awami league such as the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and rights activist Malik Ghulam Jilani, father of Asma Jahangir and G.M Syed the founder of Sindhi nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz.