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Shaheed Asad Day today

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Published: 06:22, 20 January 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Shaheed Asad Day today

The nation is recalling the great sacrifice of student leader Shaheed Asaduzzaman Asad on the occasion of his 51th martyrdom anniversary today (Monday).

On January 20, 1969, Asad, the hero of the 1969 mass upsurge, was gunned down by the Pakistani police on a protest rally near Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) against the atrocities on the people of East Pakistan.

The death of Asad, then a master’s student of Dhaka University (DU), took the mass upsurge to the highest peak which hastened the fall of the then military dictator Field Marshal Ayub Khan after over a decade of his iron rule.

On the occasion, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages paying tributes to the memory of Shaheed Asad.
Recalling his contribution to the gearing up the mass movement in 1969 with due respect, both the head of the state and the head of the government prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul of Shaheed Asad.

To mark the day, different socio-cultural, student and political organisations, including Shaheed Asad Parishad, have chalked out various programmes that include placing wreath at the memorial plaque of Asad in front of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and his grave at Shibpur in Narsingdi.

 

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