CA's visit to Bangabandhu's mazar
Ahmed Niaz, Mohammadpur, Dhaka
In the last five years, the BNP-led alliance government made it one of their agenda how to delete Bangabandhu's name from the pages of history and denigrated him in all possible ways without any scruple. So his name was forbidden from being uttered in the state-run TV. They even went further ahead to do violence to the Mukti Juddher Dalilpatra and to the Constitution by deleting from them the proclamation of Independence by Bangabandhu and installation of the Mujibnagar government on April 17, 1971. Any survivor of the tumultuous days of March 1971 going down his memory lane would simply find how the towering Sheikh Mujib caught the attention of the whole world as the sole leader of the seven crore people of the then East Pakistan. The nation was really happy and it was really a moment of rhapsody to see the honourable CA showing respect to the great leader. We can hope that the CA will also visit the grave of the announcer of our independence message and great freedom fighter-- late President Ziaur Rahman. We could not understand why the CA could not be flanked by his colleague advisers in offering fateha at the mazar. It is, however, comforting that the CA and the council of advisers have ordered the PWD to look after the maintenance of the grave that the BNP had left out in the cold. Finally, I cannot but say that we were dismayed at our President's failure to send a message on the occasion.
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