“Interim govt doesn`t acknowledge Bangabandhu as Father of the Nation”

Nahid Islam, Adviser on Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, said that the interim government does not recognise Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the 'Father of the Nation'.

The adviser said this while addressing reporters at the secretariate on Wednesday (October 16).

He said as a party, Awami League was in power through fascist tactics — snatching people's voting rights, abductions, murders, and genocide. So, who called him (Sheikh Mujib) the Father of the Nation, and which day they declared as National Day, none of that will continue in the new Bangladesh. We want to rebuild Bangladesh in a new way. So, we have to change our attitude to the history in a new way.

In reply to a question, "Many people had contributed to the struggle of our nation's history. Our history didn't begin in 1952. We have anti-British struggles, we have 1947, 1971, 1990, and now 2024. We have many founding fathers, and our freedom came through their collective struggles."