DHAKA, Jan 1, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh
Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of her party’s absolute victory in 11th
parliamentary elections.
The premier paid the homage by placing wreaths at the portrait of
Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city
here this morning.
After laying the wreath, Sheikh Hasina stood in solemn silence for some
time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Bangabandhu, the
architect of independence.
Bangabandhu’s younger daughter Sheikh Rehana and Sheikh Hasina’s daughter
Saima Hossain Putul were also present on the occasion.
Flanked by senior Awami League leaders, Sheikh Hasina placed another wreath
at Bangabandhu’s portrait as the party chief.
AL Advisory Council Members Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Dr Mohiuddin
Khan Alamgir, Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, Mozaffar Hossain Paltu and Advocate
Yusuf Hossain Humayun, AL Presidium Members Matia Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim,
Abdul Matin Khashru and Abdul Mannan Khan, PM’s Advisers HT Imam and Salman F
Rahman, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, Joint Secretaries Dr Dipu Moni, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman, Organizing
Secretaries AFM Bahauddin Nasim and BM Mozammel Haque, Publicity and
Publication Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud, central leaders Advocate Afzal
Hussain, Sujit Roy Nandi, Harunur Rashid, Delwar Hossain, Barrister Biplab
Barua, Aktaruzzaman, Anwar Hossain and Shahabuddin Farazi were present on the
occasion, among others.
Later, associate bodies of Bangladesh Awami League including Dhaka City
North and South AL, Chhatra League, Jubo League, Sramik League, Krishak
League, Mohila Awami League and Swechchhasebak League placed wreaths at the
portrait of Bangabandhu marking the AL’s landslide victory in the national
polls.
Accompanied by Sheikh Rehana and Saima Hossain Putul, the prime minister
went to the Banani Graveyard and paid tributes to the martyrs of the August
15 carnage by placing wreaths and spreading flower petals.
She also offered fateha and joined a munajat there.
The AL president also paid tributes to the three slain national leaders —
Syed Nazrul Islam, Tazuddin Ahmed and Captain Monsur Ali — by placing
wreaths at their graves there.
The three leaders along with AHM Qamaruzzaman were brutally killed inside
Dhaka Central Jail on November 3 in 1975.