Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-01,
Awami Swechchasebak League started observing the month of National Mourning Day with a torch procession on Dhaka streets marching towards Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi at midnight Saturday.
Different political and socio-cultural organisations
have also chalked out month-long programmes marking the occasion.
This year, the nation will observe National Mourning
Day and the 44th anniversary of martyrdom of Bangabandhu.
Bangladesh Awami Jubo league will distribute the relief to the helpless people
and needy people considering corona
situation as part of month-long programme in the city while Krishak League will
also launch blood donation programmes centrally at Banglabandhu Avenue on the
day.
On 5 August, marking the birth anniversary of
freedom fighter Shaheed Sheikh Kamal, floral wreaths will be placed at his portrait
on the premises of Abahani Club at Dhanmondi at 8:30 am while wreaths will be
laid at his grave at Banani Graveyard at 9:15 am.
On August 8, wreaths will be placed at her grave at
Banani Graveyard at 9:00 am to observe the birth anniversary of Bangamata
Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib.
On August 15, marking the martyrdom anniversary of
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Mourning
Day, homage will be paid to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait in
front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi Road No. 32 at 8:30 am.
Homage will also be paid to other August 15 martyrs
by laying wreaths at their graves at Banani Graveyard at 9:15 am on that day.
An AL delegation will pay tributes to the Father of
the Nation by placing wreaths at his mausoleum at Tungipara in Gopalganj at
11:00 am on the day while
Special prayers will be arranged at all mosques,
temples, churches, pagodas and other places of worship across the country to
observe the National Mourning Day.
Besides, a discussion will be arranged marking
National Mourning Day at 3:30 pm on August 16 at Bangabandhu Avenue whole on
August 17, Dhaka city south units of AL will organise a discussion
commemorating the countrywide series of bomb attacks that took place on the day
in 2005.
The family members- Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa
Mujib, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law
Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, Bangabandhu’s brother Sheikh Naser,
brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabat, nephew and eminent journalist Sheikh Fazlul
Huq Moni, his pregnant wife Arzoo Moni and military secretary Colonel Jamil
while Bangabandhu’s daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana escaped the
assassination as they were in Germany.
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