AL pays homage to four national leaders

FE Team | Published: November 04, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Awami League (AL) leaders led by its acting president Zillur Rahman placing wreath on the grave of four national leaders, who were assassinated in the Dhaka Central Jail on November 03, 1975, at Banani graveyard in the city Saturday on the occasion of the

Awami League (AL) leaders Saturday paid homage to four national leaders and War of Liberation heroes to mark the Jail Killing Day, reports UNB.
AL leaders, including acting president Zillur Rahman and acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Road 32 in Dhanmondi in the city Saturday morning.
Later, they placed wreaths on the graves of the four national leaders at the Banani Graveyard and offered special prayer, seeking eternal peace for the departed souls.
On this day in 1975, Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh provisional government in 1971, Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister, M Mansur Ali, finance minister, and AHM Quamruzzaman, minister for home affairs, were gunned down in the Dhaka Central Jail.
AL and its front organisations observe the day as 'Jail Killing Day'.