Local Awami League has taken all-out preparations ahead of the visit of party chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Tungipara in Gopalganj Saturday.
The premier is expected to inaugurate 44 projects during her daylong visit, when she will also lay the foundation stones for five other projects.
In the morning, she will attend a rally at Talimpur Telihati High School ground in Bhangarpur Union of Kotalipara -- from where she was elected seven times.
Later, Sheik Hasina is scheduled to go to Tungipara and visit the grave of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and offer prayers for the salvation of souls of those murdered on August 15, 1975.
The entire Kotalipara has been given a facelift with arches and banners ahead of the high-profile visit.
Bhabendranath Biswas, president of Kotalipara unit AL, told Dhaka Tribune that additional security measures had been taken to welcome the premier. “Local leaders are ecstatic ahead of the party chief's visit.”
The 44 projects are two rural piped water supply schemes - one at Dumuria union under Tungipara upazila and another one at Ramshil union under Kotalipara upazila, 24 meter RCC girder bridge on Gopalpur UP Office-Kajulia UP via Boraihati Polshair Bazar Road and 99 meter girder bridge on Kushli GC-Dharabashail GC via Mitradanga, Sonakhali Road in Tungipara upazila, four-storey Shuagram Bohumukhi High School at Kotalipara, three-storey girls hostel (100 beds) at Sheikh Hasina Adarsha Degree College at Kotalipara, four-storey academic building of Kotalipara SN Institution, Kotalipara Poura Kitchen Market and Kotalipara Upazila Parishad built Sheikh Russel Library at Bhangarhat Talimpur Telihati High School at Kotalipara upazila, 'Mukta Manch' on the ancestral home of poet Sukanta Bhattacharya at Kotalipara, flood shelter center at Uttar Kotalipara Rammohon High School at Kotalipara, one-storey commercial building having 10-storey foundation at Boro Bazar in Gopalganj Sadar.
The prime minister will lay foundation stones of Gopalganj Zilla Tathya Complex Bhaban and Kotalipara Model Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre under Public Works Department, Radhaganj Union Bhangarhat Bazar Development and Mural Construction on 1971 Liberation War at Koralipara Upazila under Local Government Engineering Department and building Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's mural at 11 union parishads under Kotalipara Upazila Parishad.