Odommo Chattagram
Initiative hailed
Former Chittagong city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury expresses his views on the oncoming Odommo Chattagram festival at a meeting at Chittagong Press Club (CPC) auditorium yesterday. On his right are CPC President Abu Sufian, Chattagram Samity Dhaka President Rezaul Hoque Mostak, The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam, and Prothom Alo Resident Editor Abul Momen. Photo: STAR
Journalists and politicians here yesterday hailed The Daily Star, as the newspaper hosts Odommo Chattagram, a 12-day festival beginning today to project Chittagong. They hoped the programme would shed more light on the development aspects of the port city. Not only Chittagong but also the whole country will be benefited through such programmes, ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, former mayor of Chittagong city, said. He thanked The Daily Star for taking the initiative, while addressing a views exchange meeting at Chittagong Press Club (CPC) auditorium. Rezaul Hoque Mostak, president of Chattagram Samity, Dhaka, said the traditional role of Chittagong had faded due to lack of its proper representation to the nation. He hoped the prominence of the country's second largest city would be revived through the programme. Odommo Chattagram (Indomitable Chittagong) festival will end on April 10. Hailing the undertaking, CPC President Abu Sufian, who chaired yesterday's meeting, said the programme would help inculcate the city's significance in policy makers further. The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam said there was criticism that everything, even the media, was concentrated in the capital. As a media outlet, The Daily Star has taken the initiative only to project the rich past of Chittagong, its various features and enormous economic prospects, he added. Mahfuz Anam also requested cooperation from all to make the programme a success. Senior journalists of different local and national dailies and television stations took part in the discussion and expressed their views on the festival. Local daily Suprobhat Bangladesh City Editor M Nasirul Hoque, Dainik Azadi Chief Reporter Hasan Akbar, and Amar Desh Senior Reporter Mostafa Noim spoke on the occasion, among others.
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