Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the historic Mujibnagar Day.

The Prime Minister paid the homage by placing a floral wreath at Bangabandhu’s portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the Dhaka on Sunday morning.

After laying the wreath, she stood there in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Bangabandhu, the architect of the country’s independence.

Flanked by central leaders of the party, Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, placed another wreath at the portrait of Bangabandhu on behalf of her party, reported UNB.
AL’s Advisory Council members Tofail Ahmed and Advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun, presidium members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim, Obaidul Quader, Advocate Sahara Khatun and Satish Chandra Roy, joint secretaries Dr Dipu Moni and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Advocate Abdul Matin Khasru, Dr Abdur Razzak, Dr Hasan Mahmud, Abdus Sobhan Golap, Barrister Sheikh Fazley Noor Taposh, MP, Pankaj Devnath, MP, Jubo League Chairman Alhaj Omar Faruk Chowdhury were present on the occasion, among others. Later, the leaders of AL’s associate bodies, including Jubo League, Chhatra League, Mohila Awami League, Jubo Mohila League, Swechchhasebak League, Sramik League and Krishak League, laid wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu.
On this day in 1971, Bangladesh’s first government in exile was formed at the Baidyanathtala mango grove in Meherpur, in the then Kushtia district.

The place was later renamed Mujibnagar in tribute to Bangabandhu who had been declared as the president of the government-in-exile.

Syed Nazrul Islam was appointed the acting president in the absence of Bangabandhu.

Tajuddin Ahmad was appointed the first Prime Minister while Captain M Mansur Ali and AHM Quamaruzzaman were made cabinet members.

The successful leadership of the core cabinet steered the Liberation War to the victory on 16 December in 1971.