Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam has said keeping Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman confined within the party perimeter was not doing justice to the contributions of the nation’s founding father.
He said the ruling party had ‘undermined’ itself by doing so.
“We’re not doing the right thing by limiting Bangabandhu to ourselves. Bangabandhu is the leader of the nation, the people and all political parties,” he told a programme in Dhaka on Tuesday.
“It is we who have divided Bangabandhu and thereby undermined ourselves,” he added.
The architect of the nation’s independence and most members of his family were assassinated on Aug 15, 1975, barely four years after Bangladesh became independent.
He was largely neglected by the post-1975 rulers.
Ashraf Noted there was no controversy surrounding Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, George Washington in India, Pakistan, and the US respectively.
“Why should Bangabandhu be limited to one political party then?” he asked.
The ruling party has organised a 40-day programme marking the National Mourning Day.
Ashraf said this year’s Mourning Day programme had attracted a large number of people and organisations.
In future, he hoped, everyone would together observe the anniversary of Bangabandhu’s martyrdom.
Ashraf, son of Bangabandhu’s close aide Syed Nazrul Islam, said the killers had not succeeded in obliterating the nation’s founding father by assassinating him.
“He carved out his place in people’s hearts… and is gradually becoming more powerful,” Ashraf said. “Bangabandhu is now more powerful than the living Bangabandhu.”
Source: Bd news24