Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated that the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 disadvantaged the area of the future that would and may have been “ours to share” as he asserted that it was time to as soon as once more chart a daring ambition for partnership between India and Bangladesh.
In an opinion piece titled ‘Imagining a different South Asia with Bangabandhu’ printed in The Daily Star newspaper on Friday, Prime Minister Modi promised that India will stay Bangladesh’s accomplice as they collectively march in the direction of the golden future for which Bangabandhu, and thousands and thousands of patriotic Bangladeshis, and certainly hundreds of Indians, gave their all.
“The assassination of the Father of Bangladesh deprived the region of the destiny that could and should have been ours to share,” Modi stated.
“As we look back on Bangabandhu’s life and struggle, I ask myself, what could our subcontinent have looked like, had this modern-day giant not been assassinated?” wrote Modi, who’s visiting Bangladesh on his first journey to a overseas nation because the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Modi stated the Bangabandhu’s killers wished to reverse the features of Bangladesh’s independence, for which he had led a heroic wrestle.
“They also wanted to strike a mortal blow to Bangabandhu’s dream of building a cooperative, peaceful and harmonious subcontinent,” he stated.
Despite unflinching dedication to his trigger, and regardless of all of the persecutions he suffered, Bangabandhu retained a generosity of spirit that may be a mark of true greatness, Modi stated, including that the Bangladeshi chief’s progressive perception in equity, equality and inclusiveness is captured within the phrases he wrote within the Nineteen Fifties, “I know at least this much: no one should be murdered because he holds views different from mine.”
“In him, we saw a tall leader whose vision went beyond the narrow confines of physical borders and social divisions. That is why we join our Bangladeshi sisters and brothers in celebrating Bangabandhu’s memory in this very special Mujib Borsho,” Modi wrote.
Modi stated that with Bangabandhu on the helm, Bangladesh and the area would have developed alongside a really totally different trajectory.
“A sovereign, self-confident Bangladesh, at peace with its neighbours, bearing friendship to all and malice towards none, was rising fast from the ashes of a painful war. If this had continued, perhaps India and Bangladesh could have achieved many decades ago some of the accomplishments that we were able to reach only recently,” Modi stated.
Citing the instance of the 2015 Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh, Modi stated that had Bangabandhu been on the helm longer, this achievement might have come a lot earlier.
“With the spirit of the Liberation War energising us, and with Bangabandhu as the guiding star, this region, at least the Bay of Bengal area, might have been in a different reality now,” he stated.
Modi stated that he firmly believes that the 2 international locations are as soon as once more striving in the direction of a future that the Liberation of Bangladesh had as soon as augured for the area.
“It is time to once again chart a bold ambition for our partnership, as Bangabandhu would have done. With the spirit and enterprise of our people as our Bhagya Vidhata, the dispenser of our shared destiny, such a future is closer than ever,” he added.
