Bangladesh on Sunday issued new banknotes to replace design with his basic president, the danger of the removed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was crashed last year.
A caretaker government has run the South Asian nation of 170 million people since Hasina fled, whose trial opened Sunday on charges of attempting to crush the uprising against her government in August 2024.
Until now, all the notes contained the portrait of her father, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led Bangladesh from independence from Pakistan in 1971 until soldiers murdered him and most of his family in a coup in 1975.
“Under the new series and design, the notes will not contain any human portraits, but will instead show natural landscapes and traditional landmarks,” Bangladesh Bank spokesman Arif Hossain Khan told told told AFP.
Among the designs of the Muslim majority are images of Hindu and Buddhist temples and historical palaces.
They also include works of art by the deceased painter Zainul Abedin, who depicts Bengal -Hunger during British colonial management.
Another will portray National Martyrs’ memorial.
On Sunday, notes for three of the nine different church communities were released.
“The new notes will be issued from the Central Bank’s headquarters and later from its other offices across the country,” he added.
“The other church communities of the notes with new designs will be released in phases”.
Existing notes and coins remain in circulation along with the new notes.
This is not the first time the design has changed to reflect changed politics.
The original notes issued in 1972 – after Bangladesh changed the name of East Pakistan – contained a card.
Later notes contained Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the Awami League, which Hasina also led over her 15 years with power.
When other parties were responsible – dominated by the powerful Bangladesh Nationalist Party (GDP) – historical and archaeological sites were shown.
The Awami League was banned last month pending the trial against Hasina and other party leaders.
Hasina, 77, is self -employed exile in India and has defied an extradition order to participate in her trial.
