The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

President Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed would visit the Tungipara tomb of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15 to pay homage to the great national leader on the occasion of 33rd anniversary of his martyrdom.

This year's commemoration of the country's slain independence leader takes place in a changed context of restoration of the 15th of August as National Mourning Day by High Court order and the caretaker government's decision to comply.

President Sheikh Mujib was assassinated on August 15 in 1975.

The head of state and the head of government would offer fateha and place floral wreaths at his mazar on the day, officials said.

On August 15 last year, President Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed also showed respects to the memory of the late leader by laying floral wreaths at the grave of Mujib at his paternal place Tungipara in Gopalganj to mark the 32nd anniversary of his martyrdom.

Guard of honour was given by a smartly turned-out contingent drawn from three services of the Armed Forces as a mark of state respects to Bangabandhu Mujib.

Chief of Army Staff Gen Moeen U Ahmed, Naval Chief Vice-Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam and Air Chief Air Marshal SM Ziaur Rahman had also paid respects to the late leader at Tungipara during the function last year.