Mujib had no role in language movement: Badruddin Umar | Interview

(Prominent writer, researcher and leftist intellectual Badruddin Umar today passed away due to old-age complications at 94. Our Deputy Chief News Editor Abdul Baten Matubbar took an interview of him on February 20, 2025. The interview has been rerun today as a mark of respect to him.) DHAKA, Sept 7, 2025 (BSS) - Writer, researcher and historian Badruddin Umar has said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had no role in the Language Movement, but on the contrary his daughter, deposed premier Sheikh Hasina, has always been loudly claiming that Mujib led the movement in 1952 from jail. Without mentioning the name of anybody he said, "Even a (female) writer and novelist wrote about his role in a newspaper titled 'Bangabandhu and the...