DHAKA, Dec 14, 2020 (BSS) – Former secretaries of the government
have protested over the vandalism of the sculpture of Father of the
Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In a statement issued today, they said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman is the Father of the Nation, founder of the independent
Bangladesh and the best Bangalee of all time.
“We find Bangabandhu in every breath of independent Bangladesh.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is another name of our existence.
Bangabandhu, the Liberation War and Bangladesh are the inseparable
entity,” the 101 former secretaries said in the statement.
The statement, signed by former press secretary to the prime
minister AKM Shamim Chowdhury on behalf of the secretaries, said they
observed with deep concern that a vested, communal and fundamental
quarter is making provocative statements over the Bangabandhu’s
sculpture and misleading people.
This group vandalised Bangabandhu’s sculpture in Kushtia, which was
an audacity and equal to sedition, the statement said, adding, “We do
believe the vested, communal and fundamental quarter is the allies of
the assassinators who killed Bangabandhu in 1975.”
Condemning the vandalism of Bangabandhu’s sculpture, the
secretaries demanded exemplary punishment of those who were involved
in the barbaric act.