March is Mujib's month
It was audacious of BNP lawmaker Shammi Akhter to have called the Father of the Nation 'Feraun' in the sacred House of the Nation which gave way to protest from the treasury bench and exchange of filthy words between the government and the opposition MPs that caused a huge pandemonium leading to the opposition's walkout. The nation is thunderstruck that a parliament member could hurl such an irresponsible remark on the man without whom this nation would have not been born and she could not be a lawmaker in a sovereign nation-state. Did she make the remark to please her Madam who preferred the date of Bangabandhu's assassination, a national Mourning Day, to make her date of birth and she, without least scruple, observes the date with pomp and grandeur?
Senior leaders like M.K. Anwar and Barrister Moudud Ahmed could not stop their member from making the unsavoury comment that sparked off the row and rumpus. They had better begged apology for what she uttered for they knew who is Sheikh Mujib. Barrister Moudud called Mujib a legendary leader and the father of this nation in his book, Era of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, where he also wrote, “Our liberation war was fought and won in his name”(page 314). Mrs. Shammi Akhter has every democratic right not to endorse and respect Sheikh Mujib as the father of the nation, but she barely preserves the right to denigrate the greatest son of the nation in the very House of the Nation by use of any vile word she likes. Mujib might have faltered in running the country, but he loved this country. It was Mujib for whom the war ravaged country could be rebuilt so soon. The tumultuous March is back and if you keep your eyes on newspaper reports, regrettably you will see Ziaur Rahman nowhere. It is Mujib's month.
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