The ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, urged the people to pay their tributes peacefully to the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15 at Dhanmondi 32.
Sajeeb, in a video message on his verified Facebook page, on Sunday night alleged that a conspiracy was on to erase the memory of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Bangladesh.
Mentioning that the historical house of Sheikh Mujib at Dhanmondi 32 was burned down to ashes, he said, 鈥業 will not call them protestors; I will call them mobs.鈥� They burned down the house of the Father of the Nation.鈥�
Sajeeb, who was the ICT adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, said, 鈥業n the Dhanmondi house, the father of the nation and my family members were brutally killed. Even the killers of 75 [1975] did not dare destroy that house.鈥�
Sajeeb, who lives in Washington in the US now, said, 鈥楤angabandhu is not a partisan subject. He [Sheikh Mujibur Rahman] is the Father of the Nation; without him we could not become Bangladesh, we would remain Pakistan today.鈥�
鈥楳y urge to the Bengali nation, if you believe in the spirit of independence and if you love Bangladesh, you will pay your respect peacefully through laying flowers at 32 number (Dhanmondi 32),鈥� he said.
The long-term Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, also president of Awami League, resigned on August 5 and fled to India amid an unprecedented student-led mass uprising.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with all but two of his family members in the early hours of August 15, 1975, at his Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka, by a group of army personnel.
His daughters 鈥� Sheikh Hasina, now the prime minister, and Sheikh Rehana 鈥� survived the massacre as they were abroad at that time.
