Chittagong Bureau :
Former Chittagong City Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury refused an offer of release from jail to see his daughter, who was undergoing treatment for cancer abroad during the military-controlled caretaker government’s regime.
Chittagong City Awami League President Mohiuddin’s son Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel said his father thought his release would harm Sheikh Hasina.
Nowfel, Organizing Secretary of the ruling party, was speaking at a Victory Day programme in the port city on Saturday, a day after his father’s burial. “My father was one of the hundreds of thousands who follow Sheikh Hasina’s political ideals,” Nowfel said.
He said the 2007-’08 caretaker government gave his father Mohiuddin a written statement and asked him to sign it if he wanted to be released during the 1/11 episode in 2007. “My sister Tumpa was on deathbed abroad at the time,” Nowfel said.