The country's only boat museum has been demolished
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Barguna's 'Bangabandhu Boat Museum' has been demolished. The country's first boat museum was built in Barguna to introduce boats to the new generation and attract the attention of domestic and foreign tourists.
It was demolished on Saturday (February 1) morning in the presence of local BNP leaders and activists.
Tourism entrepreneur Arifur Rahman said, Barguna is a coastal district, boats surrounded by rivers are our heritage. However, if we thought of the boat as a heritage instead of seeing it as a party icon, it could have been kept in the museum. Maybe if the boat museum had been kept intact by changing its name, the heritage of our coast would have survived. However, it is government property and the DC could have demolished it. He could have made a new plan or design and done it in a new way.
Former senior joint general secretary of Chhatra Dal in Barguna district, Muraduzzaman Tipon said, 10 museums have been collected in the name of the boat museum. Government property has been seized and converted into a boat museum. That is why the people have demolished it.
Advocate Murad Khan, the organizer of the Central Executive Committee of the Jubo League, said that the boat museum was named Bangabandhu Boat Museum because people burned it on the 5th and when they failed to break it with bare hands, they demolished it with tools. We demand the construction of a Shaheed Zia Memorial Library from the Deputy Commissioner.
Rezbiul Kabir, former organizing secretary of Barguna District BNP, said that there was a public library here and it was demolished and the Bangabandhu Boat Museum was built, crores of taka were looted from it. The Bangabandhu Boat Museum was built to fuel the then government. Now the people are demolishing it, and those who are demolishing it are patriots.
It is worth noting that the museum was inaugurated on December 31, 2020 in the shape of a boat measuring 165 feet long and 30 feet wide. The museum was built under the planning and supervision of the then Barguna Deputy Commissioner Mostain Billah. At that time, there were promises to build various institutions, including a boat research center, a modern library, a Bangabandhu and Liberation War corner, rides for children's entertainment, a theater, and a small cafe, along with the museum. However, it has not been implemented even after 4 (four) years of its inauguration.