The interim government does not consider Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the ‘father of the nation‘, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam.
He said this in response to a question from reporters at the secretariat on Wednesday (October 16).
The advisor said, Awami League was in power as a fascist party. They were in power by disenfranchising people and by murdering them and killing them. So who did they call the father of the nation, what day did they declare as national day, it will not continue in new Bangladesh. We want to restructure Bangladesh. As a result, we must bring a new perspective to history.
He said, you consider everything done by Awami League as national. A government without votes has no legitimacy. A lot has been done in that time. All will be restructured and reassessed.
In response to the question of the journalists whether this government considers Bangabandhu the father of the nation or not, Nahid Islam said, of course not.
In response to the question that then we will not have any father of the nation, he said that many people have contributed in the history of our struggle for this land. But our history didn’t just begin in ’52. We have anti-British struggles, ’47 and ’71, ’90 and ’24. We have many founding fathers. We got freedom as a result of their struggle.
The information adviser said that the national days which are being canceled were imposed by the Awami League. That was fascist behavior. The government thinks they are unimportant, so they are being cancelled.
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