The hero of the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 Lt General J S Aurora died in New Delhi on Tuesday morning.
Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, the GOC in C , Eastern Army Command was the army officer, who signed the surrender treaty with Pakistan’s General A A Niazi on December 16, 1971.
After signing the document at about 4.30pm, the Pakistani Commander handed over his Personal Pistol and Lanyard to Gen Aurora and removed his badges of rank. With that a cheer went up in the Dacca race course and Dacca became the free capital of a free country, Bangladesh.
NEW DELHI: The man who forced Pakistan to surrender in the 1971 Bangladesh War is no more. Lt Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer Commanding (GOC), Eastern Command led the Indian forces and routed the Pakistani army in one of the swiftest operations ever and forced Lt Gen A A K Niazi, chief of Pakistan’s Eastern Command, to surrender just within two weeks of the war starting.
Lt J S Aurora said later that the “turning point” came after Indian troops crossed the Meghna River even though the Pakistanis had blown up a strategic bridge.
“We knew the Pakistani forces would destroy bridges. They thought they had cut us off after they blew up a bridge over the Meghna River. But we took them by surprise and crossed it at night with the help of the local people. That was the turning point,” Lt Gen Aurora would reminisce later on the war.
Heros of one nation are the Enemies of Other. He should have gone to display his faithfullness to Borders of Bangladesh to tell them that he was the one one who librated them and in return the Bangladesh would have stopped all these border tensions
bangladesh has a bit of a gratitude problem…i don’t think it would make too much difference. they see being rescued in '71 as total emasculation, so they remain hostile.
How many time I told you to stop watching Bollywood,..but you never listen,…
Look what’s happening to you now,..you are saying things which only looks good in Movie script,…
No wonder Half of Pakistan went back to India,…already,…too bad,..BUT two nation theory was alive then , now and will be in future too…
Leaving aside Indonesia — which is not considered a mainstream Muslim country — Indian Muslims constitute the largest population of Muslims in any country of the world. Going by the historical situations in which you have lived within and the social conditions you are passing through, it is absolutely possible for Indian Muslims to emerge as the most progressive and dynamic contingent of Muslims in the world.
Though Indian Muslims constitute only 12 to 15 per cent of the country’s population, the way India has evolved over centuries, the way its civilisation, its culture has taken shape, you make half of Hindustan. It is my firm belief that you will shoulder half of the responsibility, of building a modern secular India in the days to come. http://www.cpiml.org/archive/vm_swork/31whither_indian_muslims.htm
if Muslims in India don’t get a leader like Zia ul Haq with a backwards wahabi ideology, like the Muslims in Pakistan unfortunately did, then most surely the Muslims in India will progress further and further.
^ don't worry Che, history will tell how well Indian Muslims are doing, and believe me, their status will be much better than that of Pakistani Muslims.
