New Delhi: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina released a voice message for her supporters after an angry mob vandalised the house of her father and founder of the country, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Dhaka. The ousted Bangladesh PM said that the mob could only demolish the structure but would never be able to wipe out the history.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is also known as Bangabandhu. Notably, Bangabandhu’s house was vandalised during Hasina’s live address. Hasina delivered her address organised by the Awami League’s now-disbanded student wing Chhatra League and called upon the countrymen to organise a resistance against the current regime.
“They can demolish a building, but not the history, but they must also remember that the history takes its revenge,” the former Bangladesh PM stated.
“We live for those memories of Dhanmondi. Now they are destroying that house. Last time they set this house on fire, now they are smashing it as well. Have I not done anything? Have I not worked for you all? Then why this house from where my father gave call for freedom has been ransacked? I want to ask my people who is behind this? I want justice,” she said as reported by News18.
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Notably, several thousand people gathered in front of the house at the capital’s Dhanmondi area, which was earlier turned into a memorial museum, since early evening following a social media call for “Bulldozer Procession” as Hasina was supposed to make her address at 9 pm (BST).
“They are yet to have the strength to destroy the national flag, the constitution and the independence that we earned at the cost of lives of millions of martyrs with a bulldozer,” Hasian said in an apparent reference to Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus’s incumbent regime, installed by the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement.
The student movement earlier promised to scrap Bangladesh’s 1972 Constitution as they promised to bury the “Mujibist constitution” while some far-right groups also suggested a change of the national anthem adopted by Sheikh Mujib-led post-independence government.
The 32 Dhanmondi residence was set on fire earlier on August 5 last year when Hasina’s nearly 16-year Awami League regime was toppled and she secretly left the country along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana for India on a Bangladesh Air Force flight.
