News Desk :
All stage is set to commemorate the supreme sacrifice of the student leader Shaheed Asaduzzaman Asad on the occasion of his 53rd martyrdom anniversary today(January 20).
On January 20, 1969, Asad, the hero of the 1969 mass upsurge movement was gunned down by the Pakistani police at a protest against the atrocities on the people of
East Pakistan at a rally held near Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
The death of Asad, the then a master’s student of Dhaka University (DU), took the mass upsurge to the highest peak which expedited the fall of the then military dictator Field Marshal Ayub Khan over a decade of his iron rule, reports BSS.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages paying tributes to the memory of Shaheed Asad on the occasion.
Recalling his contribution which had spearheaded the mass movement in 1969 with due respect, both heads of the state and the government prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul of Shaheed Asad.
In his message, President M Abdul Hamid said the sacrifice of Asad in the 1969 mass upsurge had added a new dimension to the aspiration of Bengalis emancipation.
