Bir Shrestha Hamidur's anniversary of death today

Our Correspondent, Jhenidah

The 40th death anniversary of Bir Shrestha Hamidur Rahman will be observed today at this memorial complex built in honour of the great hero at Hamidnagar in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenidah district.Photo: STAR

The 40th death anniversary of Bir Shreshtha Hamidur Rahman will be observed today at the memorial complex built in honour of the great hero. Local administration and teachers of Hamidur Rahman Degree College and employees of Bir Shreshtha Sipahi Hamidur Rahman Smiriti Jadughar and Pathagar at Hamid Nagar have taken all preparations to observe the day in a befitting manner. The programme beginning with placing of wreaths at his portrait at 11:30 am will include qurankhwani, milad mahfil and discussion meeting. Hamidur Rahman, while serving in the then East Bengal Regiment in 1971, joined the Liberation War. He embraced martyrdom while fighting the Pakistani occupation forces at Dhali frontier in Sreemongal in Sylhet on October 28, 1971. Hamidur Rahman was born in 1945 at Khordakhalishpur village in Moheshpur upazila, Jhenidah.