Sheikh Hasina’s 41st Homecoming Day observed
The 41st Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was observed yesterday, recalling her return home on May 17 in 1981 after a long exile.
President Md Abdul Hamid issued a message on Sunday on the occasion. Marking the day, various organisations, including Awami League, usually arrange elaborate programmes throughout the country, but this year the day was celebrated on a limited scale in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.As part of AL's programme, a two-day documentary exhibition titled "Sheikh Hasina's Four Decades: Indomitable Progress of Changed Bangladesh" was inaugurated on Sunday on the premises of Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi-32.
AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated the exhibition virtually while AL information and research affairs sub-committee arranged it.
AL Advisory Council Member Dr Mashiur Rahman presided over the function virtually while Dhaka University former Vice-Chancellor and chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique joined it virtually as the discussant.
The movie 'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' was rescreened on television channels yesterday.
On May 17 in 1981, AL President Sheikh Hasina returned home after six years of exile defying different obstacles of the then government.
Boarding an aircraft of Indian Airlines, she reached the then Kurmitola Airport in Dhaka from New Delhi via Kolkata at 4:30pm on that day four decades back. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was brutally killed along with most of his family members on August 15 in 1975 and his two daughters – Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana – luckily escaped as they were abroad.
In a national council session of the Awami League on February 14-16, 1981, Sheikh Hasina was elected party president.
"I have returned to the country not to become a leader of Awami League, rather to participate in the struggle for freedom by staying beside the people," said the AL president at a reception awarded by nearly 1.5 million people at the airport after her return in 1981.
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