President visits memory-bearing Balat village in Meghalaya

President Md Abdul Hamid on Friday went by Balat town in Meghalaya, where he remained amid the 1971 Liberation War, and recalled the recollections of those days. 

Amid the Liberation War, Abdul Hamid alongside his family was living in a leased house at the town and he was likewise the sub-area administrator of the Bangladesh Liberation Force (Mujib Bahini). 

Around then, he motivated and sorted out Bangladeshi young people, who took shield in India at Gumaghat, Moilam and Balat in aMeghalaya. He set up a young gathering camp at Balat for Bangladeshi adolescents and he went about as leader of the camp. 

The President, who came to Guwahati on Thursday evening on a five-day visit to India, will go to the International Solar Alliance (ISA) summit of 121 nations to be held in New Delhi on March 11. 

He alongside his significant other Rashida Khanam and other relatives went to Balat, a little town arranged along the India-Bangladesh outskirt, by an Indian Air Force helicopter from Guwahati. 

The neighborhood organization alongside nearby individuals got the President when he achieved the town at twelve. 

Two individuals named Marak and Rajat, who met Hamid at the town amid the Liberation War, were additionally present. 

He conversed with them and recalled the recollections of those days. 

The President likewise went to the house, where he was remaining amid that time. He went to a tea slow down of Balat Bazar, where he passed his first night in the wake of achieving the town, and ended up passionate. 

Conversing with local people, Abdul Hamid said the Balat individuals yielded and languished a ton over offering safe house to Bangladeshi evacuees. "I ought to have come here considerably before after the freedom of Bangladesh, yet I neglected to do as such" 

Going down the world of fond memories, he stated, "I achieved Balat by means of Tekarhat, Gumaghat, Panchara and Moilam of Meghalaya to set up the adolescent gathering camp here. I did the duty regarding the whole time of the Liberation War." 

He said after the freedom, he propelled the Bengalee outcasts to return home. "I at long last came back to recently autonomous Bangladesh on January 10, 1972, the day when Bangabandhdu additionally got back home. I still affectionately recollect those sublime days." 

The President is booked to join the ISA summit at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Center (RBCC) in New Delhi on March 11.