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Umar confessed to my friend that he had accompanied Yahya on his visit to Dhaka to talk with Mujib. After the meeting, Yahya quickly met with Bhutto and instructed Omar to arrange a meeting in Larkana. This apparent animosity between Bhutto and Yahya was the result of the post-election strategy of the military regime. The junta, which had spent money to defeat Bhutto in elections, wanted to use him as an ally to thwart the rise of the Bengalis in the political arena with the landslide victory of the Awami League in East Pakistan. Yahya’s top aides, General Peerzada and Umar, contacted Bhutto directly to unite against Mujib.
Yahya moved directly from Dhaka to Larkana. There Bhutto met him. “We have to punish this idiot Mujib,” Yahya said at the beginning of the conversation with Bhutto. The Larkana meeting devised a strategy on how Bhutto would impose political preconditions to postpone the CA session in Dhaka on March 3. The idea was to force Mujib to commit to the six-point agreement by postponement, although Yahya did not say anything specific about such commitments in his meeting with Mujib.
In any event, Larkana’s plan was postponed until Bhutto’s visit to Dhaka in late January to discuss with Bangabandhu, where he would have the opportunity to make his own assessment of the Awami League’s position. A large group of PPP supporters came to Dhaka with Bhutto. What I learned from Tajuddin about these discussions was that Bhutto was more interested in sharing power with Bangabandhu than in discussing the importance of introducing a six-point constitution. So I sat down at my house in Gulshan again to discuss the acceptance of six points with Rafi Raja and Mobasher Hasan.
At the meeting, Rafi and Mubash asked Kamal to provide a copy of the draft constitution that we had prepared for the next AC session. When asked for Kamal Tajuddin’s advice, he said that it would be foolish to show the Awami League cards right now. Bhutto, who has been in close contact with the military junta and has been in close contact with the military junta since media reports and political speculation about the Larkana meeting, said that he could use Yahya’s tactics in the future to use any information in the documents. provided to us.
