Bangladesh Awami League will observe the historic “Homecoming Day” of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Tuesday.
The programmes will begin with hoisting of the national and party flags at the AL central office, Bangabandhu Bhaban, and its party offices across the country at 6:30am on Tuesday, said a party press release.
Awami League leaders will pay homage by placing wreaths at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Tuesday morning.
At 11am, an AL delegation will pay respect to the undisputed leader of the nation by placing wreaths at his grave in Tungipara.
The AL delegation will include its presidium member Lt Col Muhammad Faruk Khan, central committee members - Anowar Hossain, Shabuddin Farazi Iqbal Hossain Apu, Marufa Akter Popy, Gloria Sarkar Jharna.
On the occasion, a discussion will be held on a limited scale at the party’s central office in Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Avenue at 3.30pm, while Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will preside over the event.
Besides, all district, city, upazila, thana, union and ward level units of the AL, its associate and likeminded bodies will organise similar programmes to observe the day in a befitting manner.
In a statement, AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader urged all party leaders and workers, its associates, and like-minded bodies to observe all the programmes, marking Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day in a befitting manner.
Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and supreme commander of the country’s Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972, after 290 days of confinement in Pakistan jail.
