Shawdesh Desk:

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday urged all to pay their tributes to the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi 32 claiming ‘it is not a matter of politics.’

‘All of you come to Dhanmondi 32 to pay floral tributes to the father of the nation. This is not a political issue but to honour our great freedom and the man who gave it to us,’ he said in his verified Facebook page.

Joy, who lives in the United States, also said that without Sheikh Mujib, Bangladesh would not get its independence.

‘Because, without Bangabandhu, we would not get the independent Bangladesh,’ he said.

The former ICT adviser of Hasina also claimed that he knew the people of Bangladesh love Sheikh Mujib.

He said that August 15 is the National Mourning Day, although the interim government on August 13 has cancelled the public holiday on August 15, originally declared in observance of National Mourning Day. This decision was announced on Tuesday through an official notification.

On the verified Facebook page Joy paid respects to Sheikh Mujib and all the members of his family who died on that ‘dark night’.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his spouse Begum Fazilatun Nesa Mujib, his three sons — Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell — and most of the family members of three close relatives of Mujib were assassinated on August 15, 1975 by a group of army personnel.

Two daughters of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana could escape the carnage as they were staying abroad at that time.