August 15 is remembered as National Mourning Day, marking Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination in 1975. As the protests engulfed the country, an enraged mob set fire to a museum dedicated to Bangabandhu, where Rahman was killed along with his family.
Tharoor said that a statue intended to commemorate the liberation of Bangladesh had been destroyed by "anti-India vandals." He shared a photograph of the damaged statue, which depicted the moment Pakistan surrendered following the 1971 war.
This followed weeks of violent protests in Bangladesh that culminated in the chaotic resignation of ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she fled to India on Monday. The protests were initially focused on the country's quota system but eventually spiralled into an anti-government unrest.
General Naravane will pay tributes to fallen heroes of Bangladesh liberation war and it will be followed by a one-on-one meetings with the three service chiefs.
This was the presidential palace of Bangladesh founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who on August 15, 1975, was killed along with some members of his family in a military coup. Mr Mujibur had become president just four years after obtaining liberation from Pakistan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the special guests invited for the centenary celebrations of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhaka next month because India played an intrinsic role in the country's liberation, according to Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem.
Dhaka, August 28: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had in 1996 rejected a plea from Muammar Gaddafi to pardon her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killers, who were given shelter by the now beleaguered Libyan leader.
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