Dhaka, Broadcasting News Corporation : Elaborate programmes have been chalked out to observe the 47th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Mourning Day on 15 August. The national flag will be hoisted half-mast in all government, semi-government, autonomous institutions, educational institutions and private buildings including Bangladesh missions abroad.
At 6.30 am in the morning of 15 August, the President and the Prime Minister will lay floral wreaths at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi Road-32 in the capital. A guard of honor will be presented by the armed forces and prayers will be offered.
At 7.30 am, the Prime Minister will place wreaths and flower petals in the Banani Graveyard on the graves of the family members of the Father of the Nation and other martyrs who were brutally killed on August 15, 1975, along with Bangabandhu, for eternal peace of the departed souls. She will also offer Fateha and munajat for salvation of the souls of the martyrs there.
The Prime Minister will pay homage to the Father of the Nation by placing wreath at mazar of Bangabandhu at Tungipara in Gopalganj at 10 O’clock in the morning. Apart from Honor Guard by the Armed Forces, Fateha will be recited and munajat will be offered at Bangabandhu Mausoleum complex.
Special doa and munajat will be held in mosques across the country after Johr prayers on August 15 marking the occasion. Special prayer programs will also be organized in temples, churches, pagodas and other religious institutions.
Special supplement will be published in national dailies and periodicals on the occasion. Department of Films and Publications (DFP) has published posters for distribution across the country. Posters in English language have already been dispatched to Bangladesh diplomatic missions abroad. On the occasion of mourning day, Department of Mass Communication will screen documentary films on life and works of Bangabandhu across the country. The Press Information Department (PID) organized a week-long photo exhibition at the Bangladesh Secretariat. Regional Information Offices under PID also arranged Photo Exhibition at divisional level. Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television organized special programs on the occasion.
All public and private primary schools, high schools, madrasas, colleges, medical colleges and universities and other educational institutions will organize discussion meetings, poetry recitations, essay writing and painting competitions, art exhibitions, hamd-naat competitions and doa mahfils.
In line with the national program, discussion meetings, doa mahfil and other programs will be held at the district and upazila levels. Government officials will actively participate in the events. All City Corporations, Municipalities and Union Parishads of the country will chalk out and implement their own mourning day programs.
The programs of Dhanmondi, Banani and Tungipara will be broadcast live on Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television. Other private television channels, FM radio and community radio will also broadcast the programs live with the help of Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television.