Today (May 17) is the 34th homecoming day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
On May 17 in 1981, she returned to her motherland ending a long exile.
A nor`wester had hit the city and it was raining on that day in 1981, but over a million people had gathered outside the Kurmitola Airport in Dhaka to receive her from early in the morning.
They had come from all parts of the country and the whole thoroughfare from Farm Gate to Kurmitola was full of people.
Earlier on February 14, 15 and 16 in 1981 Awami League had elected Sheikh Hasina as party president at its council.
After a long wait, a plane of Indian Airlines carrying Sheikh Hasina from Delhi via Kolkata landed at the airport at 4:30 pm.
She was overwhelmed with emotions, which was apparent as she kissed the soil of her motherland immediately after getting off the aircraft.
The Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with his family members was brutally killed on August 15, 1975. Luckily his daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, were in Germany then and became the lone survivors.
The AL has chalked out a seven-day programme marking the homecoming of its president.
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