ZCZC
BSS-05
DAY-MOURNING-3 LAST DHAKA
The ruling AL has drawn up an elaborate programme centrally to observe the
National Mourning Day tomorrow to pay glowing tributes to Bangabandhu and
other martyrs of August 15 massacre and take a pledge to work for nation
building following the ideology of the father of the nation.
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister
Obaidul Quader on Thursday called upon the party leaders and workers to
observe the programmes in a befitting manner maintaining the health
guidelines.
He also urged all progressive political, socio-cultural organizations and
the people to observe the National Mourning Day with due respect in the Mujib
Year, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman.
As part of the party programmes, at dawn tomorrow, the national flag and
party flag will be kept at half-mast and black flag will be hoisted at the
Bangabandhu Bhaban, Awami League (AL) headquarters in the capital city and
all other offices of the party across the country.
Tributes will be paid to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait on
Bangabandhu Memorial Museum premises on the city’s Dhanmondi road number 32
at 8am on the day while Dhaka city units of AL and its associate bodies will
pay homage to Bangabandhu through mourning processions.
AL will also pay homage to all martyrs of August 15 carnage by laying
wreaths at Banani graveyard at 8:45am while offering fateha, munajat and doa
mahfil will be held there.
Besides, homage will be paid to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his
mausoleum at Tungipara in Gopalganj and offering of fateha, munajat and doa
mahfil will also be held there at 10am.
A delegation of the AL central working committee and its Gopalganj district
and Tungipara upazila units will take part in that programme.
The delegation members are Presidium Member Lieutenant Colonel (Retd)
Muhammad Faruk Khan, Central Working Committee Member Abul Hasnat Abdullah,
Presidium Members Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman, Joint
General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Organizing Secretaries BM Mozammel
Haque, SM Kamal Hossain, Mirza Azam and Advocate Afjal Hossain, Central
Working Committee Members Advocate ABM Riazul Kabir Kawser, Sahabuddin Farazi
and Anisur Rahman.
The party will also hold Doa and milad mahfils at mosques across the
country after Zohr’s prayers while special prayers will also be offered at
temples, pagodas, churches and all places of worships on the day.
In the afternoon, food will be distributed among the orphans, poor and
destitute people.
Besides, Mohila Awami League will hold a milad and doa mahfil on
Bangabandhu Bhaban premises after Asr prayers tomorrow and will arrange a
virtual discussion on August 18 marking the National Mourning Day.
Jubo Mahila League will organize another discussion on August 20 to mark
the day while Jubo League will hold a doa mahfil seeking eternal peace of the
departed souls of all 15 August martyrs, including Bangabandhu, and
distribute food among destitute people on the same day.
Apart from this, Jubo League will organize a discussion on August 25 while
Jatiya Sramik League and Mohila League will organize another discussion on
August 26 virtually to mark the National Mourning Day.
Dhaka south and north city units of AL will hold a discussion on August 30
while Chhatra League will hold another discussion on August 31, marking the
National Mourning day.
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