Zia proposed me to be minister: President

President M Abdul Hamid said after the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then military ruler Ziaur Rahman proposed him to become a minister.

The President said this in a recorded interview given to the Bangladesh Television (BTV) on National Mourning Day (August 15).

Referring to the proposal of Ziaur Rahman, the head of the state said he officially protested the barbaric assassination of Bangabandhu by attending a discussion on February 21 in 1976 in Kishoreganj.

“In my speech, I said ‘no dictatorship from Hitler-Mussolini to others could have survived and none (autocracy) will survive in our country also,” the president added.

Source: BSS