The Awami League won a
large majority in the
National assembly by
taking 160 seats out of 300
and it could form the
governement in the centre
but it had not gota single
seat from west Pakistan
whereas Bhutto's PPP got
an overwhelming majority
seats , hence it was quite
difficult to undermine the
traditional dominance and
majority status of PPP in
West Pakistan ifthe entire
leadership would come
from East Pakistan.
Awami League had won
the elections on the basis
of Six Points programme
which were based on
Itcaused a severe
constitutional crisis when
the negotiations between
Yahya,Mujeeb and Bhutto
entire provincial autonomy failed .Although Yahya
curtailing the powers of
the central government.
khan hoped to reacha
compromise on power
sharing buT there was no
settlement and ultimately
resulted in the
postponement of the
session of the National
assembly which resulted
chaos and constituional
crisis in the country.