Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday joined a rally organised by Awami League at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital to mark the Home Coming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 10 January.

Earlier, AL leaders said the Awami League president Sheikh Hasina will chair the rally, which started at about 3:00pm.

Leaders, activists and supporters of the party and its affiliated bodies gathered at the venue with banner and festoons to join the rally.

On January 10 in 1972, Bangabandhu returned to independent and sovereign Bangladesh after over nine and half months’ captivity in a Pakistan jail.