The nation will commemorate the supreme sacrifice of the student leader Shaheed Asaduzzaman Asad on the occasion of his 54th martyrdom anniversary tomorrow (Friday).
On January 20 in 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, reports BSS.
The death of Asad, then a master's student at 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.
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, they prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul of Shaheed Asad.
Asad was the president of Shahidullah Hall of Dhaka University and General Secretary of the Dhaka Unit of the East Pakistan Students Union.
Marking the day, different socio-cultural, student and political organizations, including Shaheed Asad Parishad, have chalked out various programmes to observe the day.
The programmers include placing wreaths at the memorial plaque of Asad in front of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and his grave at Shibpur in Narsingdi.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
