Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday criticized senior leaders of the then Awami League for failing to protest and speak against the brutal killing of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members.

“There were so many slogans. Where did all those people go? There was not a single person who showed courage to protest the bloodshed.  Why could not they do that?" she asked, reports UNB.

She lamented that Awami League was a huge party having so many supporters and leaders, but not a single person got that guts to speak against the killing.

The eldest child of the Father of the Nation, said that the kafon (funeral shroud) of Bangabandhu was made of the relief cloths which were supposed to be given to the poor people.

“My father, mother, brothers and sisters did not take anything with them,” she said with an emotion- chocked voice adding, “Even their namaz e janaza was not performed.”

“I have a question, many leaders are here (at the BICC). The Father of the Nation phoned many of them, what did they do,” Hasina asked.

Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul