“MY COUNTRY”
Speaking to AFP two days before the vote, Rahman vowed to build on their legacy.
“They are them, I am me,” he said from his office, beneath gold-framed portraits of his late parents. “I will try to do better than them.”
He described the “mixed feelings” that overwhelmed him when he arrived home in December – the joy of returning, swiftly eclipsed by grief at his mother’s death.
“This is my country, I was born here, I was raised here – so naturally, that was a very happy feeling,” he said.
Instead of celebrating, however, he had to bid farewell to his ailing mother, who had long been in intensive care.
“When you come home after so long, any son wants to hug his mother,” he said. “I didn’t have that chance.”
Within days of landing in Dhaka, he assumed leadership of the BNP and its election campaign.
The still grieving heir took to the stage, microphone in hand, rallying vast crowds.
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