Awami League and its front bodies’ leaders and activists did not pay any tribute to the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his 50th death anniversary.
A woman came with flowers on Friday morning to pay tribute but was forced to go back by agitating people.
The police blocked both sides of Mujib residence to ensure security, and people handed over five suspected members of the Awami League.
OC Dhanmondi officer-in-charge Kaw Shaw Knee said that they had taken all-out security measures to avoid any untoward situation.
‘People handed over five suspected Awami League activists since Thursday evening, and we have released four after taking undertakings. One is now in custody, as he is accused in a case,’ the OC added.
According to the police, Zakir Hossain, Babu, who is in custody, is an AL activist and hails from Bhola.
The tense situation prevailed following Mujib’s grandson Sajeeb Wajeed Joy, also ousted prime munister Sheikh Hasina’s son, announcing through a video message on his verified Facebook account, urging all Awami League and its front bodies’ leaders and activists to pay tributes, overcoming all obstacles of the ‘illegal Yunus government’.
Mizanur Rahman, a private company employee, said that he came to Dhanmondi-32 so that no AL activists could pay tribute there.
After Hasina killed thousands of people, how can Joy make such a call, Mizanur said.
This year, after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian regime in the face of a bloodied student-mass uprising on August 5 in the past year, the interim government of the Peace Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus suspended in May the political activities of the Awami League and its affiliated organisations until the trial of leaders of the party responsible for mass killing in the July-August uprising.
The interim government also scrapped the ‘public holiday’ on August 15, as the day was observed during the Awami League regime.
