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.
In the joint meeting, leaders of Dhaka City south and north units
of AL and associate bodies presented their respective proposed
programmes marking the National Mourning Day and the month of
mourning.
Speaking on the occasion, the AL general secretary said the party
will have many programmes on the month of mourning besides it will
observe birthday of Bangabandhu’s eldest son Sheikh Kamal on August 5,
Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib’s birthday on August 8,
anniversary of 2005 series bomb blasts on August 17 and 2004 grenade
attacks on August 21.
Quader, also minister for road transport and bridges, said the
black chapters of history of assassination of Bangabandhu and most of
his family members through August 15 carnage and the assassination
attempts to kill his daughter Sheikh Hasina through gruesome grenade
attacks on August 21 in 2004 were intertwined.
The deep-rooted conspiracy and brutality of the August 15 carnage
has surpassed all other political assassinations across the globe as
innocent child and pregnant woman could not escape the massacre in
which the founding father of the independent Bangladesh was brutally
assassinated just after three and half years of the new-born state, he
added.
He said August 15 carnage’s prime target was Bangabandhu and August
21 grenade attack’s major target was to assassinate Bangabandhu’s
daughter Sheikh Hasina.
The conspirators are still continuing their ill attempts against
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, he added.
Begum Matia Chowdhury said August 15 is a day of emotional
attachment to AL leaders and workers and the people of all strata and
it is also a day to gain strength from the grief to take a pledge to
devote lives for the betterment of our motherland imbued with the
spirit and ideology of Bangabandhu”.