AL pays tributes to Bangabandhu on Homecoming Day

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BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) and its front and associate organizations paid rich 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 Friday on the occasion of the Homecoming Day of the leader.
On the occasion, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid her homage at first at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Then she stood in solemn silence there for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Bangabandhu.
Flanked by senior leaders of the party, Sheikh Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, placed another wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation as the party chief.
Bangabandhu, the supreme commander of the country’s Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972, after 290 days of confinement in the Pakistan jail.
Since then, the nation is observing the day as the Homecoming Day of the Father of the Nation.
Awami League Advisory Council Members Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Presidium members Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Mohammed Nasim, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, Joint General Secretaries Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Organizing Secretary Ahmed Hossain, Publication and Publicity Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap and Deputy Publication Secretary Aminul Islam Amin were also present.
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