The Bangladesh published new tickets on Sunday to replace the conceptions featuring its founding president, the father of the Prime Minister ousted Sheikh Hasina who was overthrown last year.
A goalkeeper government led the South Asian nation of 170 million people since Hasina fled whose trial opened on Sunday to try to crush the uprising against her government in August 2024.
Until now, all the notes featured the portrait of his father, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the Bangladesh of Pakistan’s independence in 1971 until the soldiers died and most of his family during a coup in 1975.
“Under the new series and the new conception, the notes will not present any human portrait, but will rather present natural landscapes and traditional monuments,” said the spokesman for the Bangladesh Bank, Arif Hossain Khan, said AFP.
Among the conceptions of the Muslim majority nation are images of Hindu and Buddhist temples and historic palaces.
They also include works of art from the late painter Zainul Abedin, representing Bengal Famine during British colonial domination.
Another will represent the Memorial of National Martyrs.
On Sunday, notes for three of the nine different confessions were released.
“The new tickets will be issued by the headquarters of the Central Bank, then of its other offices across the country,” he added.
“The other denominations of notes with new designs will be published in phases”.
The existing notes and parts will remain in circulation alongside new notes.
This is not the first time that the design has changed to reflect the evolution of politics.
The first notes published in 1972 – after Bangladesh changed its name from East Pakistan – presented a card.
Subsequent notes featured Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who directed the Awami League, which Hasina also led in power in power in power.
When other parties were in charge – dominated by the powerful nationalist party of Bangladesh (BNP) – of the historic and archaeological sites presented.
The Awami League was prohibited last month pending the Hasina trial and other party leaders.
Hasina, 77, is in self-imposed exile in India and has challenged an extradition order to attend her trial.
