57th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla today

Desk Report: The 57th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq is being observed in the country in a befitting manner today (Saturday).

Different political parties, including National Awami Party (NAP) and National Democratic Party (NDP), and socio-cultural and professional bodies, including Bangladesh Jatiya Manobadhikar Samity and Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq Gobeshona Parishad, have chalked various programmes to observe the day.

The programmes include holding discussions, placing wreaths and offering doa and munajat at Sher-e-Bangla’s mazar in the city.

Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla or Huq Saheb, was born on 26 October 1873, at his maternal uncle’s house at Saturia, a prosperous village in the Southern part of the district of Bakerganj. But his ancestral house was at Chakhar, a village 14 miles away from Barisal town.

Huq was an eminent public leader who had held many high political posts including the Mayor of Calcutta (1935), Chief Minister of undivided Bengal (1937-1943) and East Bengal (1954), Home Minister of Pakistan (1955) and Governor of East Pakistan (1956-58).


risingbd/Dhaka/April 27, 2019/Mukul