AL pays tributes to four slain national leaders

Live Correspondent: The ruling Awami League and its associate bodies today paid glowing tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four slain national leaders on the occasion of Jail Killing Day.

Marking the day, the AL leaders and workers paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi- 32 in the city.

The four national leaders -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Captain M Mansur Ali and AHM Quamaruzzaman -- were killed inside the Dhaka Central Jail on this day in 1975.

The assailants of the August 15, 1975 carnage with the support of their political patron Khondker Mostaq Ahmed gunned the four captive leaders and top associates of Bangabandhu.

Their goal was visibly to expose Bangladesh to extreme wilderness after killing Bangabandhu along with most of his family members and toppling his post-independence government. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Jail Killing Day this year too is being observed across the country in a limited scale, maintaining the health safety guidelines.

At about 8am this morning, AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, by placing a wreath at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32.

AL's daylong programme started with lowering the national and party flags at half mast and hoisting black flag at Bangabandhu Bhaban and Awami League offices across the country, including its central office, at the dawn today as a mark of respect to the martyrs of November 3, 1975.

 

Dhaka, 3 November (campuslive24.com)//BSC

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