Hasina visits Dhaka exhibition on Bangabandhu, takes selfies with Rehana, Saima

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has visited an exhibition on her father the independence hero Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 21 Feb 2020, 11:14 PM
Updated : 21 Feb 2020, 11:51 PM

Sheikh Rehana, the other daughter of the Father of the Nation, and Hasina’s daughter Saima Wazed Hossain were with the prime minister at the exhibition on Friday afternoon.

Different exhibits made Hasina relive memories of the related incidents, the ruling Awami League’s Centre for Research and Information said in a statement.
The two sisters stood clasping each other’s hand while listening to the founding father’s historic Mar 7 speech of 1971 from a video footage at the exhibition.
Hasina also took selfies with Rehana and Saima in front of a portrait of Bangabandhu, her Assistant Press Secretary MM Imrul Kayes said.
The exhibition – ‘Lighting the Fire of Freedom: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’ - is being organised on the first floor of the academy’s National Art Gallery along with the Dhaka Art Summit since Feb 7.

The summit ended after a week but the exhibition on Bangabandhu ahead of his birth centenary celebrations will run through to Mar 31.

The academy and the government’s ICT Division assisted the organisers in the exhibition under the supervision of CRI with direct advices from Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddiq, a trustee of the centre. The grandson of Bangabandhu visited the summit and the exhibition on Feb 9.