Birshreshtha Hamidur's death anniversary today

The 44th death anniversary of Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman will be observed today at the memorial complex built in honour of the great hero at Dholoi in Kamalganj upazila of the district.

Local administration, students and teachers of Hamidur Rahman Degree College, and different socio-cultural and political organisations have taken up programmes to observe the day.

The programmes beginning with placing of wreaths at his portrait at 9:00am will include qurankhwani, doa mehfil 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 Dholoi frontier on October 28, 1971.

He was born in 1954 at Khordakhalishpur village (now Hamidnagar). Hamidur Rahman Smriti Jadughar and Pathagarh were established at the village in 2007.