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'Madhu Mela' from today in Jashore

January 22, 2019 00:00:00


JASHORE, Jan 21 (BSS): A week-long 'Madhu Mela', to mark 195th birth anniversary of great poet and originator of Bangla sonnets Michael Madhusudan Dutt, will begin tomorrow (Tuesday) at Sagordari in Keshabpur Upazila of the district.

Different cultural organisations in association with district and upazila administration have taken various programmes on the occasion. The Mela (fair) will continue till January 28.

The programmes include circus, sports competition, seminar on Madhusudan's life and works and cultural functions during the fair.

State Minister for Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Swapan Bhattachariya will inaugurate the fair as the chief guest.

Sheikh Afil Uddin MP, Maj Gen (Retd) Prof Dr M Nasir Uddin, MP, Kazi Nabil Ahamed, MP, Ranojit Kumar Roy, MP, and Ismat Ara Sadique, MP, will be present as special guests.

Khulna Divisional Commissioner Lokman Hossain Miah will preside over the function.

A total of 200 stalls have already been set up on the fair venue.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt was born in a zamindar family at Sagardari on January 25, 1824, to Rajnarayan Dutt and Jhannabi Devi.


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