Bangladesh
Six-Point Day Bangabandhu would always say 'Six-Point meant one thing, Freedom': PM Hasina
Dhaka, June 8: Speaking on the historic June 7- Six-Point Day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shared an intereating anectode about her father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She said Bangabandhu would always say that Six-Point meant only one thing: freedom.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the remarks at a virtual discussion meeting organized by the National Implementation Committee to celebrate the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation on the occasion of the Six-Point Day on Monday (June 7).
"Today we are an independent nation. However, the way he (Bangabandhu) wanted to build the Bengali nation, the preparations he made, the program he undertook for socio-economic development, unfortunately he could not do it. On August 15, 1975, he and all our family members were brutally murdered. My younger sister and I were abroad at that time and could not come to the country for six years," the Prime Minister said.
"When the Awami League elected me president, I returned to the country. From then on, we had only one attempt - to build the golden Bengal of the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He left Bangladesh as a least developed country. Today, by the grace of God, we are a developing country. Bangladesh is moving forward, will move forward," she added.
The Prime Minister said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had struggled to change the destiny of the people of this country since his student days. It was his wish that the Bengali nation would have a better life. He always thought of how to liberate the nation from misery and poverty and give it a better life by freeing it from hunger, exploitation and deprivation.
"He made a significant contribution to the creation of Pakistan. But it is unfortunate that as soon as we became Pakistan, our state language Bengal was hit, closing the opportunity to speak in our mother tongue. That movement was also started by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib as a law student of Dhaka University," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said.
"As he raised the Six-Point demand, the Pakistani rulers said that he had made this demand to completely isolate it, but that is not true. He spoke of human rights. In any case, the transformation of these Six-Point demands into the demands of the people, that is, the Six-Point demand was named by the Father of the Nation as a demand for the survival of the people of Bangladesh," the Prime Minister concluded.
