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A prominent point of criticism during Sheikh Hasina's tenure has been the renaming of infrastructure, institutions, and public spaces in honor of her family members, particularly her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh. [257]
[156] [157] 15 August is the day many immediate family members of Zia's political rival, Sheikh Hasina, including her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were killed. As a result of the deaths, 15 August was officially declared National Mourning Day of Bangladesh during the Hasina regime.
Almost the entire Sheikh family was assassinated on 15 August 1975 during a military coup d'état. Only Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who were visiting West Germany, survived. Mujib is the maternal grandfather of Tulip Siddiq, British MP [348] for Hampstead and Kilburn since the 2015 UK general election. [349]
Hasina's fall triggered both jubilation and violence as crowds ransacked her official residence in the capital Dhaka while statues of her father, independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were ...
Her father, who led Bangladesh's fight for independence from Pakistan in 1971, was assassinated with most her family in a military coup in 1975. She was fortunate to have been visiting Europe at ...
Rangpur is the ancestral home district of his father Wazed Miah and his potential parliamentary constituency. [35] After the Awami League returned to power in 2009 with Sheikh Hasina as prime minister for a second time, he made his first public statements after the BDR Mutiny, praising his mother's
His name was listed in The 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2024. ... Yunus remained a follower of Hasina's father, Sheikh Mujib, the country's founding father. [112]
"My youngest daughter was running behind me with my shoes saying 'take, father', as if she thought I was going away." ... How Bangladesh's protests ended Sheikh Hasina's 15-year reign.