Protesters set fire to Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s home during Hasina’s speech

Protesters rally at Sheikh Mujib's house in Dhaka, demanding justice and resisting the current regime led by Hasina.

A large group of protesters on Wednesday (February 6, 2025) vandalised and set on fire Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s residence in Dhaka during a live online address of his daughter and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

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Witnesses said several thousand people rallied in front of the house in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, which was earlier turned into a memorial museum, since early evening following a social media call for “Bulldozer Procession” as Hasina was supposed to make her address at 9 p.m. (BST).

Hasina delivered her address organised by the Awami League’s now-disbanded student wing Chhatra League and called upon the countrymen to organise a resistance against the current regime.

“They are yet to have the strength to destroy the national flag, the constitution and the independence that we earned at the cost of lives of millions of martyrs with a bulldozer,” Hasina said in an apparent reference to Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus’s incumbent regime, installed by the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement.

She added, “They can demolish a building, but not the history … but they must also remember that the history takes its revenge.”

The student movement earlier promised to scrap Bangladesh’s 1972 Constitution as they promised to bury the “Mujibist constitution” while some far-right groups also suggested a change of the national anthem adopted by the Sheikh Mujib-led post-independence government.