[🇧🇩] No love is left for Mujib in new Bangladesh

[Saif]

Sheikh Mujib Ur Rehman's Statue Toppled Amid Widespread Unrest

 

[Saif]

বঙ্গবন্ধুর ভাস্কর্য ভা-ঙছেন হাজার হাজার মানুষ

 

[Saif]

Bangladeshi protesters destroy statue of ousted PM Hasina's father with sledgehammer

 

[Saif]

সারা দেশে শেখ মুজিবের মুর‍্যাল, ভাস্কর্য ভাঙচুর |

 

[Saif]

যেভাবে ভেঙে ফেলা হয়েছে বিজয় সরণির বঙ্গবন্ধুর ভাস্কর্য |

 

[Bilal9]

যেভাবে ভেঙে ফেলা হয়েছে বিজয় সরণির বঙ্গবন্ধুর ভাস্কর্য |

I have been fielding many questions about why people don't like statues of Mujib everywhere and why they are being torn down in the new era.

I think we should pose this question to Hasina - who over-utilized the symbolism of her father as a crutch and excuse for her misrule and tyranny.

Every possible new college, school, hospital, bridge, industrial or infra installation was named after her father or other members of her family.

Bangladeshis do have great reverence for their former leaders - but it should left up to the person on who they revere, and not be forced upon them.

Bangladeshis frankly have had enough of Hasina in the last 15 years, and unfortunately, enough of her father and family members as well.

 

[PakistanProud]

Mujib was a major founder of Bangladesh and was meant to be the PM of Pakistan before the top generals ousted him. Don't you think he deserves credit? His family doing what they did shouldn't justify hating their parents - or am I missing something here? @Bilal9 S @Saif

 

[Saif]

Mujib was a major founder of Bangladesh and was meant to be the PM of Pakistan before the top generals ousted him. Don't you think he deserves credit? His family doing what they did shouldn't justify hating their parents - or am I missing something here? @Bilal9 S @Saif

Mujib didn't lead the freedom fighters instead he preferred to surrender to the Pakistani army in 1971. Mujib ordered his colleagues to flee East Pakistan. He didn't have any clue about the misery the Bengalis went through during operation searchlight. All Awami League leaders fled to a safer place leaving behind unarmed civilians at the gun point of Pakistani army. After the independence, People had forgiven Mujib and his colleagues for their treachery. But people didn't forgive him for his mindless killings of political opponents and unbridled corruption. Not only that, he destroyed all the democratic institutions in the country by establishing BAKSAL. All political parties and media were banned. Mujib practically established a one party political system in the country which was against the aspirations of the people. Nobody in Bangladesh shed tears for Mujib after his death.

 

[Bilal9]

Mujib didn't lead the freedom fighters instead he preferred to surrender to the Pakistani army in 1971. Mujib ordered his colleagues to flee East Pakistan. He didn't have any clue about the misery the Bengalis went through during operation searchlight. All Awami League leaders fled to a safer place leaving behind unarmed civilians at the gun point of Pakistani army. After the independence, People had forgiven Mujib and his colleagues for their treachery. But people didn't forgive him for his mindless killings of political opponents and unbridled corruption. Not only that, he destroyed all the democratic institutions in the country by establishing BAKSAL. All political parties and media were banned. Mujib practically established a one party political system in the country which was against the aspirations of the people. Nobody in Bangladesh shed tears for Mujib after his death.

I have little to add and wholly concur with what S @Saif bhai wrote.

Mujib may have been a great person to interact with personally and a back-slapper and party goer with Bhutto, but he was a sub-par administrator and disastrous leader unable to control his corrupt underlings in his final years leading up to his demise. West Pakistan was spared from his misrule.

I could go into his murderous cadre antics of his early East Pakistan years as the right hand man for Suhrawardy and earlier during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Kolkata, but I won't.

Suffice it to say, his daughter (by utilizing his name at every propaganda opportunity) had completely soured his name among Bangladeshis. His legacy is essentially dead among Bangladeshis of the new generations (Y and Z). Bangladeshis traditionally (as Muslims) do not like worshipping political leaders as ideal people, but his daughter put the final nail in his coffin as a former leader.

We have a saying in Bengali - squeezing too much out of a lemon makes it bitter. You get the drift @PakistanProud bhai.

To explain, people in Bangladesh should have been left up to their own choices as to who they like as former leaders but his daughter made Sheikh Mujib as a symbol of her national treachery as a one-party tyrant (helped by her tyrant assists from the West). When Bangladeshis tear down statues of Mujib, this is what they are reacting to and opposing.

What happened earlier this month is a popular revolution and uprising led by Gen Z students, who are sick of the corruption/mismanagement and don't like kleptocrats on any existing party. Politics will be molded on a new mold from here on in Bangladesh. I am sure all politicians are paying heed to this trend in the subcontinent.

 

[Bilal9]

Some developments this morning of the amount of corruption in the previous Hasina administration, here is footage of a low level govt. secretary showing his ill-gotten wealth proceeds, bundles and bundles of Taka and Dollar notes.



Also - the home ministry adviser (retd. Brigadier General Sakhawat Hussain) I believe was let go this morning. The Student Revolution committee had commented that he made too many friendly overtures and comments favorable to the Awami League as a party. A new home ministry adviser will be appointed.

Students will not be happy until they see the Awami League as completely defunct as a party, given their misrule, armed repression and tyranny. Any supporters of Awami League (veiled, indirect or direct) will be spurned.

 

[Saif]

[H3]Protester Urinates on Mujibur Rahmans's Statue Amid Bangladesh Chaos: Sheikh Hasina Flees[/H3]

 

[Saif]

Bangabandhu’s photo removed from Darbar Hall at Bangabhaban

Adviser Mahfuj Alam, in a Facebook post today, said, "The photo of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Post '71 fascist, is removed from Darbar Hall"

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Bangabandhu’s photo removed from Darbar Hall at Bangabhaban

Photo: Collected from Mahfuj Alam's Facebook profile

A photo of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been removed from the Darbar Hall in Bangabhaban, the official residence of Bangladesh's president.

Adviser Mahfuj Alam, in a Facebook post today, said, "The photo of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Post '71 fascist, is removed from Darbar Hall. It is a shame for us that we couldn't remove his pictures from Bangabhaban after the 5th of August. Apologies. But, he won't be seen anywhere till people's July spirit lives on."

Alam further wrote, "Awami League must acknowledge and apologise for what Sheikh Mujib and his daughter have done to the people of Bangladesh, starting from non- the democratic '72 constitution to famine, laundering of billions [of takas] and extrajudicial killings of thousands of dissidents and opponents (1972-75, 2009-2024). Then, we can talk about pre '71 Sheikh Mujib. Without apologies and trials of fascists, there won't be any kind of reconciliation."

When contacted, the president's press secretary, Joynal Abedin, did not respond.

However, a press wing official said that the photo of Bangabandhu was present last night when three new advisers took their oath in Darbar Hall.

"They went home after the oath programme; I have no knowledge about the incident," he added.

According to Article 4A of Bangladesh's Constitution, "The Portrait of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman shall be preserved and displayed" in key government offices, including those of the president, prime minister, speaker and chief justice, as well as in government and semi-government offices, educational institutions, and embassies.

In 2000, the Awami League government passed a law making it obligatory for all government offices to display Bangabandhu's portrait. However, this law was repealed in 2001 when the BNP-led government took office.​