Academics, professionals and journalists on Wednesday at a discussion meeting held in Dhaka said the late politician Tajuddin Ahmad, founding prime minister of Bangladesh, who was one of the organisers聽 of the 1971 War of Independence, wanted to establish a democratic country upholding the rights of the common聽people.
Socio-cultural organisation Kaler Dhani organised the discussion meeting at Bishwa Sahitya Kendra auditorium to mark the birth centenary of Awami League leader Tajuddin Ahmad, with Dhaka University professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury in the chair.
Serajul Islam said that Tajuddin was an ideal politician who wanted to establish the rights of the common people of Bangladesh.
The War of Liberation in 1971 was a war of mass people, and Tajuddin led the war, remaining in India as a war of Bangladesh, Serajul Islam said.
Tajuddin wanted to establish a democratic country, establishing the rights of the common people, but never wanted to be the top leader, he said.
He was a senior Awami League leader, who organised the war of independence in the absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but after the country gained independence, he was dropped from his party like Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, founder of the Awami League, Serajul Islam said.
Academic and writer Morshed Shafiul Hasan said that Tajuddin Ahmad never wanted to be a leader superseding the founding president of the country, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but he always followed Sheikh Mujib as his leader.
