I learned to make right decisions from mother: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she learned from her mother, Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, how to make ‘right decisions’ in difficult times. ‘I have seen in my mother the determination to take the right decisions in adverse time,’ Hasina said, adding her father (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) did not sit with the Pakistani military junta after getting paroled in the Agartala conspiracy case in 1969 because of her (Fazilatunnesa Mujib’s) ‘firmness’. The Prime Minister made the remark at a function organised in the city on the occasion of the 84th birth anniversary of Fazilatunnesa, wife of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The prime minister also shed lights on Fazilatunnesa’s role in Bangabandhu’s political life. ‘I’ve seen the determination of my mother in the turns and twists in our political life. My father had his politics and my mother had the strength to make decisions. Hasina said her mother had never gone to Pakistan. She said Fazilatunnesa also supported Sheikh Mujib’s 1962 plan to free the country from West Pakistan’s rule through an ‘armed rebellion’. The prime minister said her mother had ‘huge contribution’ in the successful general strike enforced on Jun 7, 1966 to rally support for the historical six-point charter of demand, according to a news agency.