BSS, Dhaka :
The ruling Awami League (AL) and its front organisations paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi here on Thursday morning on the occasion of the historic Six-Point Day.
After paying homage as the Prime Minister by placing a wreath at the portrait of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Hasina, the AL president, placed another wreath on behalf of her party. Then she stood in silence for a few moments.
Awami League Advisory Council member Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Mozaffar Hossain Paltu, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, AL Presidium Memeber Dr Abdul Razzak, Colonel (retd) Muhammad Faruk Khan, Joint General Secretary Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Organizing Secretary Ahmed Hossain, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, and other AL leaders A K M Enamul Haque Shamim, Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, were present on the occasion, among others.
Later, other leaders and workers of AL associate bodies, different political parties in a large queue placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu.
On this day in 1966, the Awami League (AL) under the charismatic leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called for a day-long hartal throughout East Pakistan pressing the demand for autonomy to end the exploitation, deprivation, subjugation and tyranny of the then central government of Pakistan on the people here.
People took to the streets during the dawn-to-dusk hartal throughout the province and the law enforcement agencies, including the East Pakistan Rifles (EPR), opened fire on the demonstrators in Tongi, Dhaka and Narayanganj that left 11 people, including labour leader Monu Miah, Shafique and Shamsul Huq, killed.
