Bangabandhu’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee Monday 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, reports BSS.
“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.
