PM Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who arrived in style at Ottawa in his own aircraft. --Memories of Lee Kuan Yew -The Founding Father- Singapore

-Memories of Lee Kuan Yew, The Founding Father- Singapore.

.... Another person I remember from the Ottawa meeting was Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the hero who had opposed Pakistan and led East Pakistan to independence as Bangladesh. He arrived in style at Ottawa in his own aircraft. When I landed, I saw a parked Boeing 707 with “Bangladesh” emblazoned on it. When I left, it was still standing on the same spot, idle for eight days, getting obsolescent without earning anything. As I left the hotel for the airport, two huge vans were being loaded with packages for the Bangladeshi aircraft. At the conference Mujibur Rahman had made a pitch for aid to his country. Any public relations firm would have advised him not to leave his special aircraft standing for eight whole days on the parking apron. The fashion of the time was for leaders of the bigger Third World countries to travel in their own aircraft.

Source: - Lee Kuan Yew

(Founding Father- Singapore)

BOOK- From Third World to First

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