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New Delhi: Bangladesh has introduced new banknotes. The talking point of these new notes is the absence of the portrait of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father and the nation's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The new banknotes have new designs with natural landscape and traditional landmarks, the country's central bank said.
Up till now, all the currency notes featured the portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. He led the country from January 1972 until his assassination in a coup in August 1975.
Along with the new banknotes, existing notes having Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's portrait and coins will remain in circulation.
'Under the new series and design, the notes will not feature any human portraits, but will instead showcase natural landscapes and traditional landmarks,' Bangladesh Bank spokesman Arif Hossain Khan told news agency AFP.
The new banknotes were released by Bangladesh Bank. They will have images of Hindu and Buddhist temples, historic palaces, and also feature artwork by the late painter Zainul Abedin, depicting the Bengal famine during the British colonial rule.
Another banknote will feature the national martyrs' memorial for those who died in the independence struggle against Pakistan.
The notes for three of the nine different denominations were released on Sunday, 01 June 2025. The others will be put into circulation in phases. 'The new notes will be issued from the central bank's headquarters, and later from its other offices across the country,' Khan said.
The designs of the banknotes have been modified earlier too to reflect Bangladesh's changing politics. When the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headed by Khaleda Zia was in power, the notes featured historic and archaeological sites.
In 1972, the initial notes featured a map after Bangladesh changed its name from East Pakistan after gaining independence.
The later banknotes featured Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who fronted the Awami League, which Sheikh Hasina led during her 15-year-old rule until she fled the country in August last year following a student-led uprising against her. Since then, the Muslim-majority country has been run by a caretaker government headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
(With agency inputs)
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