2024-09-09 10:18:31
The interim government has decided to convert the Ganobhaban, the official residence of the country’s Prime Minister, into a ‘July Uprising Memorial Museum’ and open it to the public. In this case, the activities will be started by forming a committee by tomorrow Sunday through architects, architects and experts.
Information and Broadcasting and Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Adviser Nahid Islam said this after inspecting Ganobhaban on Saturday (September 7).
At that time, Industrial Adviser Adilur Rahman Khan and Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud were present. Today at around 11 o’clock the three advisors visited the Ganabhaban. After visiting for about an hour, they spoke to the journalists at the gate of Ganobhaban.
Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud said, we had a cabinet meeting last Thursday. It has been decided to convert the public building into a museum. Ganobhaban will be converted into a museum by preserving the memory of the people’s uprising of 2024 and the torture, disappearances, murders and oppression of the people during Sheikh Hasina’s regime and will be opened to the public. Today we have primarily come to visit Ganobhaban for that purpose.
He said, to convert the Ganobhaban into a museum, we will form a committee through architects, architects and experts to start the process.
Information and Broadcasting and Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Adviser Nahid Islam said, “It has already been decided in our cabinet that Ganobhaban will be converted into ‘July Uprising Memorial Museum’.” As the people won the Ganobhaban on 5th August and after much blood and sacrifice we got the moment of 5th August. As a result, the public building will be converted into a museum to open it up to the public and capture the people’s victory. We want to keep it as a sign not only in Bangladesh, but in the whole world. We have decided to turn this Ganabhaban into a July People’s Uprising Memorial Museum on behalf of the government to keep it as a sign to the whole world that what happens to any dictator, fascist, murderous statesmen and that the real power belongs to the people. To that end we had our initial visit today.
He also said that we have spoken to the officials of the Public Works and Architecture Department, and we have taken preliminary advice from them. We have stated our wishes as to how we would like to see it and a formal committee has been ordered. Maybe the committee will be done by tomorrow. Maybe we will start working from next week if there is a committee. So that we can inaugurate this museum in a short time, we have been asked to carry out the work at a very fast pace.
In response to the question of who will be in the committee, Nahid Islam said that the committee has been asked to contact and consult with those who are experts, architecture and museum experts, artists, museum experts abroad or those who have experience in coup memorial and museums.
When asked what will be in the museum, he said, first of all, there will be memories and diaries of the 36-day coup. Those who were martyred in this movement, there will be a memory, there will be a list and besides this movement there will be a list of the persecutions, those who have gone missing, those who have been extrajudicially killed. All these subjects will have a representation. We have decided to build the museum in the state of ruins that Ganobhaban is in, as much as possible. There will be some digital representation.
When asked where the residence of the next head of government will be, this adviser said that the residence of the next prime minister will be discussed later. Now our chief advisor. Muhammad Yunus will stay in Yamuna.
In response to a question about what he saw after visiting the Ganabhaban, he said, “Now we have seen a lot of wall writing and graffiti inside.” Many of the looted pieces of furniture were left behind by people, which have also been preserved. There is vandalism all around as an expression of people’s anger. We will try to keep these angers as much as possible to museum.