[1][2][3] The Minister of Commerce, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, immediately took control and proclaimed himself head of an interim government from 15 August to 6 November 1975; he was in turn succeeded by Chief Justice Abu Sayem.

[12] Although it was originally founded as a law enforcing agency to maintain internal security, it became a second national armed-force and served as a political task force for the Awami League.

Near the end of 1973, Bangladeshi security forces received intelligence that the left-wing revolutionary activist Siraj Sikder and his insurgents were going to launch coordinated attacks around Dhaka.

[26] The JSD, through its armed wing Gonobahini led by Colonel Abu Taher and politician Hasanul Haq Inu, began a political massacre of government supporters, Awami League members, and police.

[37][34] Anthony Mascarenhas narrated in his book Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood that, Siraj's sister Shamim Sikder blamed Mujib for the killing of her brother.

[47] According to Anthony Mascarenhas, Faruque offered Major Ziaur Rahman indirectly to take part in the plan and tried to convince him, but Zia cleverly avoided the matter.

He claimed that the "CIA station chief in Dhaka, Philip Cherry, was actively involved in the killing of the "Father of the Nation"—Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman."

[59] It was heard that, on 26 March, Major Sayed Farooq-ur-Rahman conspired to attack Mujib in his public meeting at Suhrawardy Udyan on the occasion of Independence Day of Bangladesh but could not take any initiative due to precautionary measures.

Shafiullah told the court about his last telephone conversation with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,When I spoke to Bangabandhu, upon hearing me he said, "Safiullah your force has attacked my house.

Mosharraf himself was killed during a counter-revolt four days later on 7 November, which freed Major General Ziaur Rahman in power and was brought in to bring law and order.

On the morning of 15 August, protests were held in several places including Kishoreganj, Bhairab, Khulna, Jessore, Faridganj in Chandpur, Mohanganj in Netrakona, and Gafargaon in Mymensingh.

Among them, the rebellion and struggle of 500 protesters including veterans of the Bangladesh Liberation War of Sherpur Sadar, Sreebardi, Jhenaigati and Nakla upazilas was most discussed.

[85] Kamrul Alam Khan Khasru, film actor and the guerrilla commander of Dhaka region during the Bangladesh Liberation War, was shot and hospitalized while protesting the assassination.

[86] On 18 August 1976, 5 freedom fighters Javed Ali, Nikhil Dutt, Subodh Dhar, Dipal Das, Mofiz Uddin were killed in an army operation for protesting.

"[87] On 3 November 1975, Brigadier General Khaled Mosharraf launched a successful coup with the support of Colonel Shafayat Jamil to remove the assassins from power and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad from the Presidency.

Obaidur Rahman, Nurul Islam Manzur, Shah Moazzam Hossain, and Taheruddin Thakur, who were Bangladesh Awami League politicians who had aligned themselves with Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad.

[92] On 18 September 1980, a commission of inquiry was formed by four British jurists in the United Kingdom on the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his family and four national leaders.

Mohammad Bazlul Huda was brought back from Bangkok, where he was serving a prison sentence for shoplifting as part of a criminal exchange program between Thailand and Bangladesh.

The District and Session Judge of Dhaka, Mohammad Golam Rasul, ordered the death sentence by firing squad to fifteen out of the twenty accused of conspiring in the assassination.

[97] The appellate division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh gave its verdict on 19 November 2009,[98] after a five-member special bench, headed by Justice Mahammad Tafazzal Islam, spent 29 days hearing the petition filed by the convicted.

[103][104] On 7 April 2020, Captain Abdul Majed who was hiding in Kolkata, was arrested at Mirpur by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

"[106]Mark Tully, the bureau chief of BBC, said,"The life of the man who was indeed the Father of the nation because he was the sole leader of the movement which led to the birth of Bangladesh ended in tragedy.

"Fenner Brockway, member of the UK House of Lords, said,"Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is enshrined in the freedom which he won for all the people of Bangladesh, every man, woman and child.

The cover page of the book reads:Set in Bangladesh at a time when Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise, The Good Muslim is an epic story about faith, family and the long shadow of war.

Tahmima Anam, the prize-winning author of A Golden Age, offers a moving portrait of a sister and brother who struggle with the competing loyalties of love and belief as they cope with the lasting ravages of war and confront the deeply intimate roots of religious extremism.

Echoing the intensity and humanity of Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Anam's "accomplished and gripping novel", in the words of author Pankaj Mishra, "describes not only the tumult of a great historical event, but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals living in the shadow of revolution and war".

Antony Mascarenhas has commented in the "Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood" (1986) that Shamim Shikder, sister of Siraj Sikder, blames the government for the death of him in the police custody on 3 January 1975.

On the contrary, after reading the whole book, a kind of sincere respect and love for Bangabandhu was born in our minds[114]Deyal may be contradictory on the political ground; but it brings the legacy of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that implicates the killing was a remarkable moment in the History of Bangladesh.

Nirmalendu Goon, Syed Shamsul Haque, Shamsur Rahman, Mahadev Saha were remarkable poets whose pen raised concern for the death of the father of the nation.

The poems referred highlight the loss, repentance, agony, and anger for the perpetrators who grasped the statue of freedom to vandalize it: The writer did not stop here only with the drops of tears.