The Awami League (AL) has taken elaborate programmes marking the 44th homecoming day of Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina on Friday.

As part of the programmes, the party leaders will greet the premier, the eldest daughter of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at her Gonobhaban residence in the capital at 9am, according to an AL press release, reports BSS.

National leaders and intellectuals will address the meeting. Special doa and prayers will also be offered at mosques, temples, churches and pagodas to mark the day. Doa will be offered at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Jummah prayers.

Christian Community will hold special prayers at Mirpur Baptist Church at 9 am on the day while Buddhist Community at International Buddhist Monastery in city’s Merul Badda at 10 am and Hindu Community at Dhakeshwari National Temple at 11.30 am.

Awami League’s relief and social welfare subcommittee has taken elaborate programmes to observe the 44th homecoming day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on May 17.

 As part of the programmes, food will be distributed among the orphans of Tejgaon’s Rahmate Alam Islam Mission orphanage tomorrow noon.

 Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will attend the programme.

On May 17, food will be distributed among the orphans of Azimpur Salimullah Muslim Atimkhana, Salimullah Road’s Atimkhana in Mohammadpur, Sobhanbag Masjid Atimphana and Badda Beraid Rahim Ullah Atimkhana.

 Food will also be distributed among the orphans of the atimkhanas (orphanages) adjacent to Hazrat Shahjalal (R) Mazar (shrine) in Sylhet, Hazrat Shah Amanat (R) and Garib Ullah Shah (R) in Chattogram on the same day.

The members of the subcommittee will also distribute food among orphans in different districts across the country.

On May 18, foreign minister Dr Hasan Mahmud will distribute food among the inmates of Chattogram’s Kadam Mobarak Atimlhana.
 
On May 17, 1981, Sheikh Hasina returned home after a long exile. Boarding on an aircraft of the Indian Airlines, Sheikh Hasina reached the then Kurmitola Airport here from the Indian capital of New Delhi via Kolkata at 4.30pm on that day.

 Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was brutally killed along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975 and his two daughters-- Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana --- luckily escaped the carnage as they were abroad.

 In a national council session of Awami League on February 14, 15 and 16 in 1981, Sheikh Hasina was elected as party president in her absence and then she returned to the country on May 17.

AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader asked the leaders and workers of the party and its associate bodies across the country to take programmes in line with the central ones.

Bd pratidin English/Lutful Hoque