Our Correspondent :
On the occasion of the 96th birth anniversary of Bangataj Tajuddin Ahmed, the first Prime Minister of independent Bangladesh, a wreath was laid to his memory at his residence in Kapasia, Gazipur on Friday at the initiative of Upazila Awami League and allied organizations.
Simeen Hussain Rimi MP, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Culture and daughter of Bangataj, addressed the function as the chief guest at a function organized at the Kapasia Upazila Awami League party office in a short space due to lockdown due to corona virus.
Gazipur District Awami League Vice President and Upazila Parishad Chairman Advocate Md Amanat Hossain Khan, Upazila Parishad Vice Chairman Asaduzzaman Asad, Women Vice President Chairman Raushan Ara Sarkar and others spoke at the function presided over by Upazila Awami League President and former MP Bir Muktijoddha Muhammad Shahidullah were present.
The late Tajuddin Ahmed was born on 23 July 1925 in an aristocratic Muslim family in Dardaria village of Rayed union in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district.
He was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh during the War of Liberation in 1971. He played an important role in the formation of the first government of Bangladesh during the war of liberation which is better known as “Mujibnagar Government”.
After independence, he served as the Finance Minister of Bangladesh till 1974. After the assassination of Bangabandhu in his own family in 1975, four national leaders including Tajuddin Ahmed were arrested and kept in Dhaka Central Jail. All of them were killed in captivity on November 3, 1975.
