PM joins milad on Ivy Rahman
Sunday, 24 August 2014
A milad and doa mahfil was held at the residence of late Ivy Rahman, former women affairs secretary of Bangladesh Awami League, at Gulshan in the capital after Asr prayers Sunday on the occasion of her 10th martyrdom anniversary, according to a news agency.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the milad and doa mahfil.
Besides, relatives, friends and well-wishers of the deceased as well as ministers, parliament members, leaders of Awami League and its associate bodies and officials of Bangladesh Cricket Board joined the milad and doa mahfil.
A special munajat was offered on the occasion, seeking eternal peace of the departed soul.
Earlier, the Prime Minister talked to the family members of Ivy Rahman and consoled them.
On this day in 2004, Ivy Rahman, wife of late president Zillur Rahman, succumbed to splinter injuries she suffered in the August 21 grisly grenade attack on an AL rally on city's Bangabandhu Avenue.