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PRESIDENT-REMINISCENCE-BANGABANDHU-2 LAST DHAKA
After hearing the news on the Radio, “I left the MP hostel wearing a sandal and went to Farmgate on foot and from there to one of my relatives’ house at Mohakhali. After some days, I went to Kishoreganj,” the president mentioned.
He said he turned down the offer of Zia as he did not betray with Bangabandhu’s blood. “In my whole life, I tried to uphold Bangabandhu’s ideals as a solider of him. As a result, now I have been able to be the President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Right now there is nothing left in my life,” he said with satisfaction.
Urging all to come forward to materialize the dream of the Father of the Nation, the president said, “I just want that the ideals of Bangabandhu be alive among generations to generations as Bangabandhu has immense contributions to our national history. He led the nation to each and every movement and struggled to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of people. Bangabandhu had to endure inhuman torture including imprisonment most of his life-time”.
He advised the new and future generation to know about Bangabandhu and the actual history of country’s Liberation War and heritages to become the worthy citizens.
“Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is not only a name now . . . He is an institution, a timeless history and an entity. Bangabandhu is not with us but he has left a political philosophy, policy and ideology which will show a path of light from generation to generation on the way to progress and development, “the president observed.
Terming Bangladesh now a ‘role model’ of development and progress in the world, Abdul Hamid said the country, under the efficient and charismatic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the worthy daughter of Bangabandhu, is moving towards development and progress in all sectors like trade, investment ,social, cultural, science and technology.
On the birth centenary of Bangabandhu, the country is on the verge of becoming a “Sonar Bangla” of his dream, he said, adding Bangabandhu has given freedom and her daughter is leading us to establish building a hunger and poverty free country.
About the pandemic COVID-19 (Coronavirus), the president said the whole world is currently facing a serious crisis and it is very urgent to ensure mutual cooperation and adherence to hygiene rules all time.
He asked all to take lesson from the then Muslim Seba Samity formed by Bangabandhu in his student life to provide humanitarian aids to the affected people during the natural and man-made disasters, including the Hindu-Muslim Riots in 1947.
The president prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of Bangabandhu and all other martyrs of August 15.
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