Background – To remove the inbuilt internal

colonization of East Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur

Rahman, the Awami League President unfolded a
Six- Point Program on 13 February, 1966
 This program aimed at securing the Provincial
Autonomy for East Pakistan.
 It was the most vigorous political move till

then to achieve the self-rights of the Bengalis

in Pakistan
 The 1965 War between
India and Pakistan
 Left East Pakistan quite
helpless exposing the
military vulnerability of
the province and the
indifference of the
Pakistani rulers to the
defense of the region.
 The people of East Pakistan supported it
wholeheartedly.
 Rounak Jahan commented that although Six-
Point Demand movement was short –lived, it
influenced heavily the subsequent history of
Pakistan guiding the political course in East
Pakistan. It impacted upon the election of
1970 and eventually the Liberation War of
1971.
 Administrative Disparity – Representation
from East Pakistan was bare minimum from
the highest level to the lowest clerks.
 During Ayub regime there were 62 Ministers

of whom only 22 were Bengalis. These

ministers were given only low key ministries.
 Economic causes
 The Head-quarters of all the financial

institutions were in West- Pakistan. Hence all

the capital were shifted there
 East Pakistan contributed more to the

exchequer than West Pakistan but got less in

return.
 Disparity in Development Budget for example
from 1960-65 East Pakistan received 970
crores while for the same period West
Pakistan received 2150 crores
 Military service – all the head quarters of the
three services were in West Pakistan
 Most military personnel were from WP
 Helpless situation in 1965.
 No.1 The constitution should provide for a
federation of Pakistan in the true sense on
the basis of the Lahore Resolution and for a
Parliamentary form of government based on
the supremacy of a duly elected legislature
on the basis of universal adult franchise
 2.The Federal Government shall deal with

only two subjects, defense and foreign

affairs while the residuary subjects were to
be vested in the federating states.
 3. There should be either two separate
freely convertible currencies for the two
wings or one currency with two separate
Reserve Banks to prevent inter-wing flight
of capital.
 4.The power of taxation and revenue

collection shall be vested in the federating

units. The Federal Government will receive a
share to meet its financial obligations.
 5. Economic disparities between the two
wings shall be made to disappear through
series of economic,fiscal and legal reforms.

 6. A militia or para-military force must be

created in East Pakistan, which at present has
no defence of its own.
 The six-points programme went further than
the other political demands made earlier. It
gave the Federal Government only two
subjects defence and foreign affairs and not
currency. It demanded a Parliamentary form
of government where the members of the
legislature would be elected on the basis of
the universal adult franchise. This clause gave
East Pakistan
 Advantage over West Pakistan as the
population in East Pakistan was larger than in
West.
 Point four in the six-points which demanded

that the power to tax and collect revenue

should be with the federating units was also a
departure from previous demands.
 The press in West Pakistan described it as
secessionist agenda.
 President Ayub remarked that it is the
conspiracy for establishing a Hindu-
dominated United Bengal. On 15 March he
observed that it is intended to destroy
Pakistan.
 Even the leading political parties of East
Pakistan was against it.
 4. Maulana Bhasani
of NAP described it
as a ploy of the
Western Imperialist
and questioned its
economic viability.
 Thunderous expression against oppression.
 Final expression of Bengali nationalism
 Demand for autonomy
 Expression to become self-reliant.
 Total opposition and final movement

against Government of Pakistan.

 Awareness of the value of democracy.
 Increased the popularity of Awami League
 Impact upon the 1970 Election.
 Seed to the eventual independence of
Bangladesh.
 ROAD TO LIBERATION
 Eleven Point Movement 1968-69
 Agartala Conspiracy
 Mass Uprising, 1969
 Election of 1970
 Non- Cooperation Movement 1970
 War of Liberation of 1971
 Sectors based War.
 Victory Day 16 December,1971.