An emotional visit for Hasina, Rehana

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday visited old Dhaka Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road in old Dhaka and paid tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders.

She along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana visited the Bangabandhu memorial museum and four national leaders' memorial museum inside the recently vacated jail.

Hasina visited the prison cell where Bangabandhu had been kept confined during the Pakistan rule.

The cell has now been named as Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Jail Memorial Museum.

Sheikh Rehana's son Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim and Inspector General of Prison Brig Gen Iftekharul Islam were present.

Both Hasina and Rehana who survived the August 15, 1975 carnage turned emotional witnessing the materials Bangabandhu used during his prolonged prison time.

Later, she went to the prison cell where the four national leaders -- Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, Captain Monsur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman -- were brutally killed on November 3, 1975.

Earlier, Iftekharul briefed her about various projects taken for the old jail through a physical feature survey and topographic map.

The premier inaugurated the Bangabandhu memorial museum and the four national leaders' memorial museum on May 8, 2010.