Jasim Palli Mela begins
The fortnight-long Jasim Palli Mela, a fair in honour of late folk poet Jasim Uddin, began at Ambikapur in Faridpur yesterday. Labour, employment and expatriate welfare minister engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain inaugurated the fair as chief guest in the afternoon. The fair will continue till January 15. At the opening session of a discussion on the poet, SM Nurunnabi, central member of advisory committee, Begum Saleha Mosharraf, MP, Arun Chandra Mohottom, additional deputy commissioner (revenue) and poet's son Dr Jamal Anwar spoke with Faridpur deputy commissioner Helaluddin Ahmed in the chair.
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