Shaheed Nur Hossain Day will be observed on Thursday with due solemnity across the country.
On that day in 1987, Awami Jubo League leader Nur Hossain, who imprinted his bare chest and back with the slogans "Free democracy" and "Down with autocracy", embraced martyrdom in police firing during an anti-autocracy demonstration at Zero Point in the city, now known as Shaheed Nur Hossain Square.
Awami Jubo League leader Nurul Huda Babul and farmers' leader Aminul Huda Tito of Bajitpur in Kishoreganj district were also killed in police firing during the mass movement for the restoration of democracy against autocratic rule, reports BSS.
The martyrdom of Nur Hossain and others during the mass upsurge of the late 1990s expedited the anti-autocracy movement.
In the face of the movement, the then-autocratic ruler had to step down on December 6 in 1990.
Since then, the day is being observed every year as Shaheed Nur Hossain Day.
Different socio-cultural and professional organisations as well as the ruling Awami League have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the day in a befitting manner.
Ruling Awami League's programmes to mark the day include placing wreaths at Shaheed Nur Hossain Square at 7:30 am in the city's Gulistan area and offering special prayers seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of the slain Awami Jubo League leader.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the eve of the day.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
