‘My mother was a great guerilla’: Prime Minister
Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnessa was a great guerilla, the Prime Minister said, "My mother was a great guerilla." That's how she worked. She commented that she had contributed a lot behind the organization of the six-point movement.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said these things in the President's speech at the discussion meeting on March 7 at the Dhaka District Branch Awami League office located in Tejgaon on Thursday (March 7) afternoon.
The Prime Minister said that the six-point demand for the survival of the people was so popular. The movement started after the arrest of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu. My mother had contributed a lot behind the movement.
Sheikh Hasina said, she (Begum Fazilatunnesa) was behind all the agitations starting from June 7 strike, but did not actively. She used to secretly meet the leaders, meet the student leaders, give all the instructions for the movement, hold meetings. But she never came public. Even the intelligence that Pakistanis provided against the Father of the Nation since 1948 never caught my mother. She used to change her clothes, wear a burqa and then call the car, meet the student leaders in different places by scooter, met the Awami League leaders and gave proper instructions.
At that time she was able to develop the movements properly. She made the demand of 6 points more acceptable to the people. Awami League got the majority in the whole of Pakistan in the elections of 1970. We got that in the National Assembly, Provincial Assembly. All the rest lost only two seats.