New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Stepping barefoot onto the soil of his homeland and picking up a handful of earth, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman returned to Dhaka on Thursday, 25 December, ending more than 17 years of self-exile in the United Kingdom.

Addressing a huge crowd of people in Dhaka, who gathered to hear him speak, Rahman invoked American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, stating, 'I have a dream.' Like him, I want to say, I have a plan for Bangladesh."

Paying homage to the 1971 Liberation War, Tarique Rahman said Bangladesh had been "liberated twice", first in 1971 and again through the July 2024 student uprising, which saw former PM Sheikh Hasina's ouster.

Tarique Rahman is the son of a...