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FRIDAY, JUNE 09, 2023
Bangabandhu named for India's Gandhi Peace Prize

South Asia

Hindustan Times
22 March, 2021, 05:05 pm
Last modified: 24 March, 2021, 11:02 am

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Bangabandhu named for India's Gandhi Peace Prize

This is the first time that the prize for 2019 and 2020 has been awarded posthumously

Hindustan Times
22 March, 2021, 05:05 pm
Last modified: 24 March, 2021, 11:02 am
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Photo: Collected
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Photo: Collected

India on Monday named Bangladesh's father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Oman's longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos for the Gandhi Peace Prize, an official statement by the government said.

This is the first time that the prestigious prize for 2019 and 2020 has been awarded posthumously.

The award carries an amount of Rs1 crore, a citation, a plaque and an exquisite traditional handloom item.

The decision to confer the award for 2020 on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh, his first foreign trip since the outbreak of Covid-19. PM Modi will attend the national day programme of Bangladesh on March 26 as the guest of honour and participate in the commemoration of what New Delhi has described as "three epochal events" – Mujib Borsho, the birth centenary of Bangladesh's father of the nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 50 years of diplomatic ties, and 50 years of Bangladesh's war of liberation.

Modi's itinerary in Bangladesh includes visits to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's memorial in Tungipara, about 400 km from Dhaka. Tungipara is the place of birth of Mujibur Rahman. It is also also where the architect of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence lies buried inside a tomb called the 'Bangabandhu mausoleum'.

Gandhi Peace Prize 2020 has been conferred on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, one of the greatest leaders of our subcontinent. Year 2020 marked the birth centenary of Bangabandhu. He remains an icon of indomitable courage and tireless struggle for his millions of admirers.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 22, 2021

PM Modi will also pay respect to Harichand Thakur, the founder of a religious reformation movement Matua Mahasangha at his shrine in Orakandi. On March 27, PM Modi is scheduled to visit the famous Jeshoreshwari Kali temple in Satkhira.

A large number of people from the Matua community migrated from Bangladesh to parts of Bengal and Assam over the last five decades to escape religious persecution. In Bengal, they are mostly concentrated in Nadia, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Kolkata and Hooghly, districts that together have 16 of Bengal's 42 Lok Sabha seats.

PM Modi, who heads the jury for the Gandhi Peace Prize, called Bangabandhu a champion of human rights and freedom, and is a hero to Indians as well.

An official statement said the prestigious award "recognizes the immense and unparalleled contribution of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in inspiring the liberation of Bangladesh, bringing stability to a nation born out of strife, laying the foundation for the close and fraternal relations between India and Bangladesh, and promoting peace and non-violence in the Indian subcontinent".

Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman was the Middle East's longest-ruling monarch, and known internationally for his diplomatic balancing in the volatile Persian Gulf. He often served as a facilitator of talks between adversaries, Iran and the US He was a key to meeting India's energy security needs in the Persian Gulf.

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