DHAKA, March 20, 2019 (BSS) – The ruling Awami League(AL) today paid
their profound respect to the memory of former President M Zillur Rahman
marking his sixth death anniversary.
Leaders of the party paid homage by placing wreaths at his grave in
city’s Banani Graveyard this morning.
During this time, AL Joint General Secretary and Education Minister Dr
Dipu Moni, Joint General Secretaries Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur
Rahman, Office Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, State Minister for Shipping
Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Deputy Minister for Water Resources Enamul Haque
Shamim, Cultural Affairs Secretary Ashim Kumar Ukil, Central Labor Affairs
Secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj, Agriculture and Cooperative Secretary Faridun
Nahar Laily, Science and technology affairs secretary Engineer Abdus Sabur,
AL Deputy Office Secretary and special secretary to Premier Barrister Biplob
Barua , Central leaders Advocate Riazul Kabir Kawsar, Anwar Hossain and son
of Zillur Rahman as well as lawmaker Nazmul Hassan Papon were present on the
occasion.
Besides, Dhaka City South Awami League General Secretary Shahe Alam
Murad, Jubo League Chairman Omar Farque Chowdhury and Jubo League General
Secretary Md Harunur Rashid, among others, paid tributes to the late
President.
Zillur Rahman was the undeclared guardian of Bangabandhu family following
the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
and most of his family members on the fateful night of August 15 in 1975.
The 19th President of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman breathed his last at
Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on March 20 in 2013.
As one of the main associates of Bangabandhu, he played an important role
in the historic Language Movement and the War of Liberation.