BSS, Dhaka :
Today is the 35th homecoming day of Awami League President and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
On May 17,1981, she returned to Dhaka after a long exile. “I have come to stay beside the people of Bangladesh and taken part in the struggle for freedom. I have not come to be the leader of Awami League. I want to stay beside you as your sister, as your daughter, and as a worker of Awami League, who believes in the ideals of Bangabandhu.” These were
the first public remarks of Sheikh Hasina on her return.
A nor’wester had hit the city and there was incessant rainfall on the day, yet over a million people had gathered outside the Kurmitola Airport in Dhaka to receive her. They had come from every corner of the country and the whole thoroughfare from the Farm Gate point to Kurmitola in the city was full of jubilant crowd.
Earlier on February 14, 15 and 16 in 1981, Awami League in its council meeting had elected Sheikh Hasina as the president of the party. After a long hovering over the airport, an aircraft of Indian Airlines carrying Sheikh Hasina from Delhi via Kolkata, touched the runway at 4:30 pm. She was overwhelmed by emotion, she kissed the soil of the motherland immediately after alighting from the aircraft. Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with his family members was brutally killed on August 15, 1975.
Today is the 35th homecoming day of Awami League President and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
On May 17,1981, she returned to Dhaka after a long exile. “I have come to stay beside the people of Bangladesh and taken part in the struggle for freedom. I have not come to be the leader of Awami League. I want to stay beside you as your sister, as your daughter, and as a worker of Awami League, who believes in the ideals of Bangabandhu.” These were
the first public remarks of Sheikh Hasina on her return.
A nor’wester had hit the city and there was incessant rainfall on the day, yet over a million people had gathered outside the Kurmitola Airport in Dhaka to receive her. They had come from every corner of the country and the whole thoroughfare from the Farm Gate point to Kurmitola in the city was full of jubilant crowd.
Earlier on February 14, 15 and 16 in 1981, Awami League in its council meeting had elected Sheikh Hasina as the president of the party. After a long hovering over the airport, an aircraft of Indian Airlines carrying Sheikh Hasina from Delhi via Kolkata, touched the runway at 4:30 pm. She was overwhelmed by emotion, she kissed the soil of the motherland immediately after alighting from the aircraft. Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with his family members was brutally killed on August 15, 1975.
