Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Thursday reminisced his childhood memories with his grandfather, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
"The only occasion when my grandmother objected was when my grandfather allowed me a puff on his lighted pipe. While my grandma turned furious, my grandfather let out his trademark uproarious laughter as I coughed my little lungs out," Joy said in a Facebook post.
He added: "That is one of my few childhood memories with my grandfather that never faded all these decades. But, the curtain on that togetherness came down on August 15.”
Joy said, since then, life has been one of ceaseless struggle to survive for each surviving member of my family.
"The steely resolve of my grandfather to build Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal) was passed down to my mother," he said.
He said the 102nd birth anniversary of his grandfather evokes the dream that he promised to his countrymen.
"Let it resonate in every heart and get us closer to the realization of vision 2041," he said.