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MOURNING-DAY-PROGRAMME
AL to take programmes on mourning month in limited scale
DHAKA, July 21, 2020 (BSS) – In the wake of global coronavirus
pandemic, the Awami League will take virtual programmes in limited
scale marking the month of mourning that begins on the first day of
August commemorating the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the black night of August 15,
1975.
Joining a special joint meeting with Dhaka city units and associate
bodies of AL through video conference on setting programmes for
National Mourning Day at the party president’s Dhanmondi political
office here today, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has
called upon the leaders and workers of the party and associate and
likeminded bodies and the people as well to observe the day with due
respect maintain health guidelines strictly.
With maintaining health guidelines, glowing tributes will be paid
to Bangabandhu, the architect of independent Bangladesh, on his
martyrdom anniversary on August 15, the National Mourning Day, by
placing wreaths on his portrait on the premises of Bangabandhu Museum
at Dhamondi road number 32 here.
Marking the Mujib Year, the birth centenary of the greatest
Bangalee of all times, the ongoing countrywide tree plantation
programme and relief programme will be continued.
AL Presidium member Begum Matia Chowdhury chaired the meeting while
Presidium members Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman,
Joint General Secretary and Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and
Organizing Secretary SM Kamal Hossain spoke, among others.
AL Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim moderated the
meeting while Organizing Secretary BM Mozammel Haque and Mirza Azam,
Liberation War Affairs Secretary Mrinal Kanti Das, Office Secretary
Barrister Biplab Barua, Forests and Environment Secretary Delwar
Hossain, Health and Population Affairs Secretary Dr Rokeya Sultana,
Deputy Office Secretary Sayem Khan, central working committee member
Anwar Hossain, Sahabuddin Farazi and Anisur Rahman Anis were present,
among others.
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