As I returned from Shaheed Minar, the place we paid our respects to the late freedom fighter Bulbul Mahalanbeesh, the reminiscences of 1971 engulfed my thoughts. I couldn’t assist however recall how Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s thunderous name united Bengalis to hitch the battle of independence, culminating within the beginning of Bangladesh as a heroic nation. Nonetheless, regardless of 53 years of independence, there are nonetheless descendants of those that opposed the liberation battle, refusing to acknowledge Bangabandhu and his outstanding management.
The ache intensifies after I take into consideration the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his relations by these evil forces. It’s much more heart-wrenching that these enemies of Bangladesh proceed to indicate disrespect to Bangabandhu’s surviving daughters – Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana – who miraculously survived the August 15, 1975 bloodbath.
Upon her return to Bangladesh in 1981, Sheikh Hasina, Bangabandhu’s surviving daughter, was denied entry into her father’s residence at Street Quantity 32 in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, the place the blood of her dearest relations stains each nook. She was not even allowed to supply prayers inside that home. This excessive cruelty and demonic conduct by navy dictator Ziaur Rahman is a disgrace for all of us.
Moreover, the enemies of Bangladesh refused to allocate land for Bangabandhu’s daughters, who gifted us this nation and the satisfaction of independence. The truth that they had been denied even a home in their very own nation just because they had been the daughters of Bangabandhu is an instance of sheer injustice.
In 1996, when Awami League got here to energy, a home in Dhanmondi (Home # 6, Street # 21) was allotted to Sheikh Rehana, Bangabandhu’s daughter. Nonetheless, in 2005, when BNP got here to energy by forming an alliance with battle prison Jamaat-e-Islami, they cancelled the allocation, forcibly evicted her, and turned the property right into a police station. This act of notoriety is a stain on our nation’s historical past.
Then again, the federal government readily allotted an enormous home inside Dhaka Cantonment to Khaleda Zia, the widow of Basic Ziaur Rahman, for only one taka after his assassination in 1981. Regardless of the next authorities’s elimination of Khaleda Zia from the Cantonment home as a result of moral causes, BNP used this example for political achieve.
These situations reveal a stark distinction in how the respective governments handled Bangabandhu’s daughters and Khaleda Zia. It was a transparent message from BNP-Jamaat that they needed to humiliate Bangabandhu’s household and present their hatred in the direction of him.
Sheikh Rehana tried to problem the eviction from her home, however justice was delayed for years. Finally, when Awami League returned to energy in 2009, she voluntarily handed over possession of the home to the Ministry of Public Works, bringing an finish to the ordeal. The ache of this darkish chapter in our historical past is clear within the phrases of Sheikh Rehana, who selected to dwell with the respect of being the daughter of the Father of the Nation.
This story of injustice and sighs displays one of many saddest episodes within the historical past of unbiased Bangladesh, the place the tears of Bangabandhu’s two daughters mingle with the dry soil of our beloved nation. It’s important to make clear these injustices and be sure that such cruelty is rarely repeated, for the sake of a very united and harmonious Bangladesh.