The ruling Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies on Friday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders on the occasion of Jail Killing Day commemorating the brutal killing of the leaders inside safe custody of Dhaka Central Jail in 1975.
On behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his portrait in the morning.
Later, Obaidul Quader along with party central leaders placed another wreath at the portrait on behalf of the AL.
Later, the AL general secretary along with party's senior leaders went to Banani graveyard and paid homage to national leaders by placing wreaths at their graves
there at 8am.
At first, Quader on behalf of the premier laid wreath on the grave of Syed
Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain M Mansur Ali. Besides, Surah Fateha
and a special munajat were also offered seeking eternal peace of the departed
souls there.
Wreaths were also laid at the grave of AHM Qamaruzzaman in Rajshahi.
At Banani graveyard, AL Presidium members Col (retd) Faruk Khan, Shajahan
Khan, Advocate Qamrul Islam, Dr Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin and Jahangir Kabir
Nanak, Joint General Secretaries- Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr
Hasan Mahmud and Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Organizing Secretaries Ahmed Hossain,
Mirza Azam, Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel and Sujit Roy Nandi, Office
Secretary Barrister Biplab Barua, Science and Technology Secretary Engineer
Abdus Sabur, Publicity and Publications Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap,
Cultural Affairs Secretary Ashim Kumar Ukil, Information and Research
Secretary Dr Selim Mahmud, International Affairs Secretary Dr Shammi Ahmed,
Forest and Environment Secretary Delwar Hossain, Deputy Office Secretary
Sayem Khan were also present.
AL's Dhaka city south and north units, Krishak League, Jubo League,
Swechchhasebak League, Sramik League, Mohila Awami League, Jubo Mohila
League, Bangladesh Chhatra League and different social and cultural bodies
also paid tributes to the national leaders by placing wreaths at their
graves.
The day's programme of the AL began with hoisting national and party flags at
half-mast and hoisting black flags at Bangabandhu Bhaban and party's central
office at Bangabandhu Avenue and the party's all offices across the country
at the dawn.
On August 15, 1975 Bangabandhu along with most of his family members were
brutally assassinated and on November 3 same year, his close four associates
were killed brutally inside safe custody of Dhaka Central Jail.
November 3 is a stigmatized and sorrowful day in the nation's history as the
four national leaders -- Syed Nazurl Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Captain M Mansur
Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman -- who were close associates of Bangabandhu, were
brutally killed inside Dhaka central jail on that fateful night.
