Staff Reporter :
Information Minister and Joint General Secretary of Awami League, Dr. Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that India’s contribution to the liberation war of Bangladesh would never be forgotten.
“The then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tried her level best for Bangladesh’s independence. Not only that, she also travelled about 30 countries for creating pressures on Pakistan to free Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” Hasan Mahmud said while addressing a seminar in the National Press Club organized by Indian Media Correspondents Association Bangladesh-IMCAB, titled ‘Bangabandhu: the relations between Bangladesh and India.
Our independence becomes full with the release of Bangabandhu from Pakistani jail, the minister said.
India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami said that the base of the relationship between the two countries grew during the Bangabandhu’s era.
“He showed us the guide lines of relationship. There is no need of anything new in this regards,” the Indian envoy said.
Senior journalist Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, President of National Press Club, Farida Yasmin, former President of BFUJ Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul and President of DUJ, Quddus Afrad, among others, were present.
IMCAB President Basudeb Dhar presided over the seminar. Freedom fighter and senior journalist Harun Habib presented the keynote at the seminar.
