By Xinhua
Dhaka : The Bangladeshi National Curriculum and Text Book Board (NCTTB) is set to reprint school textbooks with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman restored as "Father of the Nation" and Ziaur Rahman named "proclaimer of independence on behalf of Bangabandhu."
The Education Ministry has already approved the textbook script, which now awaits printing for the 2008 academic session.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), founded by Ziaur Rahman, when in power insisted that Ziaur Rahman was the declarer of the independence of Bangladesh. On the other hand when Mujib's Awami League came to power they refused to recognize Ziaur Rahman's contribution and proclaimed Mujib as the father of the nation.
With the changes of government in the past, the school textbooks were printed with rewritten history of the country's liberation struggle and independence war.
NCTTB Chairman Mohammad Yusuf Farooq told newsmen that the corrected history of the liberation struggle would be incorporated in the textbooks of history and social studies for students of classes one to nine.
Farooq said that they had been non-partisan while writing the new script, and tried to recognize Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman according to their historic contributions.
On March 26, 1971, Ziaur Rahman read out Bangladesh's declaration of independence from Kalurghat radio station in Bangladesh's second largest city of Chittagong.
After Mujib was killed in a military coup with most of his family members on August 15, 1975, Ziaur Rahman came to power through another military coup.