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President pays homage to Bangabandhu at Tungipara

May 08, 2018 00:00:00


President M Abdul Hamid paying tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his Mazar in Tungipara of Gopalganj on Monday — PID

TUNGIPARA, May 7 (BSS): President M Abdul Hamid has paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his Mazar in Tungipara of Gopalganj on Monday.

The President went to Tungipara, the ancestral home of the Father of the Nation, for paying homage 13 days after he took the oath of office as the head of the state for the second consecutive term.

Sworn in as the 21st President of the country on April 24, Hamid was scheduled to visit Tungipara on April 26 but the programme was postponed due to unavoidable reasons.

President Hamid laid the wreath at the Mazar of Bangabandhu at about 1:46 pm. After placing the wreath, he stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Father of the Nation when the bugles played the last post.

A smartly turned out contingent drawn from Bangladesh Army, Navy and Air Force presented a guard of honour on the occasion.

The President offered fateha and munajat seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of Bangabandhu and his family members who were brutally killed on the fateful August 15 in 1975.

Later Hamid signed the visitor's book kept on Tungipara Mazar premises. Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Abu Esrar and Sheikh Helal Uddin, MP, among others, were present there.


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