PM pays homage to Bangabandhu

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the Homecoming Day of the great leader.

The premier along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana, also the youngest daughter of the Bangabandhu, paid the homage by placing wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi here this morning.

After laying the wreath, the prime minister stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Bangabandhu, the architect of the independence.

Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and supreme commander of the country’s Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972, after 290 days of confinement in Pakistan jail.

Since then, the nation is observing the day as the Homecoming Day of the Father of the Nation.

Later, the prime minister released a commemorative postage stamp, a first-day cover and a data card, marking the historic day.

The prime minister released the stamp and the first-day cover of Tk 10 and the data card of Tk 5 at her official residence Ganobhaban.

A special canceller was used on the occasion.

The stamp, the first-day cover and the data card will be sold from the Philatelic Bureau of Dhaka GPO today. Those will also be available at other GPOs and head post offices across the country later.

There is also an arrangement for special canceller in four GPOs to be used for the first-day cover.

The day’s programmes started with hoisting the National and party flags atop the AL central office, Bangabandhu Bhaban, and party offices across the country in the morning.

Later, senior AL leaders paid glowing tribute to Bangabandhu by placing another wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban.

AL Presidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahmam, joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organizing secretaries Ahmed Hossain and BM Mozammel Haque, publicity and publication secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, cultural affairs secretary Asim Kumar Ukil, science and technology affairs secretary Abdus Sabur, deputy office secretary Sayem Khan and Central Working Committee members ABM Riazul Kabir Kawsar and Anwar Hossain were present on the occasion, among others.