By IANS,
Kolkata: Former Bangladesh head of state Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad Sunday arrived at his ancestral home in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district with his son Eric.
Emotional scenes were witnessed as Ershad’s relatives received him on his first visit to Dinhata in 34 years with flowers and hugs.
Udayan Guha, son of the ex-Bangaldesh president’s childhood friend and former state agriculture minister Kamal Guha, called on Ershad who is now spending time with his relatives at his ancestral home.
Earlier Sunday, Ershad came to this part of the border by road crossing Tangrabanda border check post from his present home in Rangpur in Bangladesh.
During his three-day stay at his ancestral home, Ershad will visit his school, Dinhata High School (Boys), from where he had completed his matriculation in 1946 before migrating to East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, to pursue higher education.
He will return to Bangladesh Wednesday. Ershad last visited Dinhata in 1975.
Ershad seized power in a military coup in 1982 and ruled Bangladesh till 1990, when he handed over power to a civilian government. He then floated the Jatiya Party and was elected an MP for two successive terms in 1991 and 1996.