PM offers prayer at Bangabandhu`s mausoleum

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is visiting her ancestral home in Gopalganj's Tungipara for the first time by road crossing the Padma Bridge since its inauguration while she offered prayer at Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's mausoleum there.

The premier on Monday morning offered Fateha and joined a munajat (prayer) seeking eternal peace of departed souls of the Father of the Nation and other martyrs of August 15, 1975 massacre.

Earlier, the prime minister paid rich tributes to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his mausoleum.

After laying the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of the architect of the independence, who was brutally killed by some disgruntled army men on the dreadful night of August 15, 1975 along with most of his family members.

Family members of the prime minister were present at that time.

The prime minister previously reached Tungipara in Gopalganj at 11:40 in the morning after over a three-hour ride by road.