DHAKA, March 9, 2020 (BSS) – Bangabandhu’s Birth Centenary Celebration
National Implementation Committee today announced the Mujib Year programmes
would be launched through electronic and social media under the revised plan
in view of coronavirus outbreak across the world.
“Celebration of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be inaugurated through televisions and other
electronic and social media,” chief coordinator of the committee Dr Kamal
Abdul Naser Chowdhury told a media briefing in the capital.
He said a technical team led by Asaduzzaman Noor MP would chalk up a
detailed new plan for the opening of the yearlong celebrations as the
coronavirus outbreak forced revision of its earlier planned grand
inauguration.
The announcement came as Chowdhury emerged from a meeting of the Father of
the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Birth Centenary Celebration
National Implementation Committee at the International Mother Language
Institute (IMLI).
Committee’s chairman national Professor Rafiqul Islam presided over the
meeting.
Chowdhury expected the revised plan for the Mujib Year inauguration to
reach out people in grassroots as well as global audience despite scaled down
grand festivity in line with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s directives
yesterday.
The plan for the grand opening was revised yesterday after the authorities
announced detection of first three coronavirus cases in the country.
Chowdhury, however, said a function would be held later at a convenient
time at the National Parade Ground, the original inauguration venue, as part
of the celebrations but the committee decided to avoid massive public
gatherings as announced yesterday.
He said Bangabandhu’s lifelong politics was meant for people’s welfare, a
fact that prompted the committee to revise the inauguration plan so the
people were not exposed to health risks posed by the novel coronavirus.
Chowdhury, however, programmes at Dhanmondi 32 and Tungipara would be held
on March 17 in line with the original plans.