Indicating that the risk of being ‘branded’ as 'separatists' in the international arena would have created if Bangabandhu proclaimed independence on that day, Hasina said, "Then who were they (pressuring Bangabandhu)? Sheikh Hasina spoke, in her words, 'harshly' at the seminar as she recalled the events after the Mar 7 speech. Hasina, the eldest child of Bangabandhu, went to the Race Course Ground that day in the motorcade of his father. Then why you are giving this misinformation to my father?”“I told my father not to pay heed to the people who are pressing you for independence proclamation,” the PM recalled. Sheikh Hasina said that those whom she saw arguing with independence proclamation on that day, many of them left AL and some of them came back.

Source: bd News24 March 10, 2017 19:01 UTC