Why BNP leaders not burning their wives’ Indian sarees: PM 

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has raised a question that why BNP leaders are not burning their wives’ Indian sarees.

“A leader of BNP has recently put off his dress and asked all not to use Indian products. Leaders who have said boycotting Indian products, do they know how many Indian sarees do their wives have? Why are not burning their waives’ sarees”, the Prime Minister said.

The Prime Minister made the remark while addressing a discussion, organised by her party on the occasion of the Great Independence Day-2024 at AL office in city's Tejgaon area on Wednesday.

She said the history of proclamation of independence in 1971 by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was distorted after his assassination in 1975. 

“Bangabandhu's independence proclamation was spread through wireless and his party men reached it elsewhere of the country. But after his assassination, the history was distorted,” she said.

“In the distorted history, it was said one Major standing on a drum blew the whistle and Bangladesh got independence. But, any country can't attain independence this way. If it happened, then Bangladesh’s history would have been written differently,” she added.

Sheikh Hasina, however, questioned about Ziaur Rahman's loyalty on Bangladesh during the War of Liberation in 1971.