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Sheikh Moni’s 80th birthday tomorrow
DHAKA, Dec 3, 2019 (BSS) – The 80th birthday of Awami Juba League founding chairman late Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni will be observed tomorrow.
To mark the day, Juba League has taken an elaborate programme, including placing floral wreath at the grave of Sheikh Moni, offering fateha, holding discussions and doa and milad mahfil.
Juba League will place wreath at the graves of Sheikh Moni and other martyrs of 15 August (1975) at the Banani Graveyard at 11 am tomorrow. Later, it will offer fateha and hold a milad and doa mahfil at the Banani Graveyard mosque in the city.
Besides, a discussion will be held at 2 pm at Institution of Diploma Engineers in the city’s Kakrail area. AL Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim is expected to address the discussion as the chief guest.
Sheikh Moni was the nephew of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the founder of Mujib Bahini, one of the major guerrilla forces of the Liberation War. He also played pivotal role during the six-point movement in 1966.
Sheikh Moni was born on December 4 in 1939 at Tungipara in Gopalganj. He served as the general secretary of the then East Pakistan Chhatra League in 1962-63. As per Bangabandhu’s direction, Moni founded the Awami Juba League, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Awami League, in 1972.
Sheikh Moni graduated from MB College in Barishal in 1960 and earned his MA degree from Dhaka University. However, the then Monayem government cancelled his MA degree.
Sheikh Moni was editor of Banglar Bani, Bangladesh Times and an entertainment magazine Weekly Cinema.
Moni, an organiser of the Mukti Bahini, along with his pregnant wife Begum Shamsunnessa Ara Arju Moni, was killed during the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with his family members in a military coup on August 15 in 1975.
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