Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid rich tributes and offered prayers at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Accompanied by her younger sister Sheikh Rehana and family members, the prime minister paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his grave and offered prayers in the afternoon seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of Bangabandhu and other martyrs of the August 15, 1975 carnage.
After laying the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of the architect of independent Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina, also president of the Awami League, reached her ancestral home at Tungipara in Gopalganj in the afternoon from Bhanga in Faridpur after attending a grand rally there marking the inauguration of the Dhaka-Bhanga rail link.
The prime minister, earlier in the morning, formally opened the Dhaka-Bhanga section of the rail link between Dhaka-Jessore.
After spending a night in her Tungipara residence, she is scheduled to leave for Dhaka on Wednesday noon and will reach her official Ganabhaban residence in the afternoon.
