<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday offered prayers at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She was accompanied by her sister Sheikh Rehana while offering Fateha and munajat (prayer) seeking eternal peace of departed souls of Bangabandhu and other martyrs of 15 August, 1975 massacre.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prayers were also offered seeking divine blessings for good health and long life of Sheikh Hasina and her family members as well as continued peace, progress and prosperity of the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM’s Assistant Press Secretary MM Emrul Kayas, who is accompanying the prime minister, confirmed this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, the prime minister paid tributes to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his mausoleum.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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 the independence, who was brutally killed by some disgruntled army men on the dreadful night of 15 August, 1975 along with most of his family members.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Family members of the prime minister were also present to pay homage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The PM reached Tungipara in Gopalganj at 10:10 in the morning by road after crossing the Padma Multipurpose Bridge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana started for Tungipara from her official residence Ganabhaban at about 7:15am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before crossing the Padma Bridge they both paid tolls.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister opened the country's longest ever self-financed Padma multi-purpose bridge amid nationwide jubilation on June 25.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tungipara is their village home in Gopalganj district where their father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founding leader, was buried after his assassination on August 15 in 1975. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>