Sheikh Rehana, younger daughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and his granddaughter Saima Wazed Hossain paid tributes to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait at Baker Hostel in Kolkata on Friday.
They travelled to Kolkata, the capital of Indian state of West Bengal, to pay tributes to the memory of Bangabandhu on the eve of the "Mujib Borsho" (Mujib Year), a Prime Minister's Office (PMO) release said on Saturday, reports BSS.
Being a student of Islamia College (now Maulana Azad College) in Kolkata, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib used to live at the room No 24 of Baker Hostel during his student life.
Currently the rooms 25 and 28 of the hostel are being used as "Bangabandhu Memorial Museum," said the release.
He was elected general secretary of the Students' Cabinet in 1946 and received his BA (Bachelor of Arts) degree from there.
While studying in the college, Bangabandhu stood by the famine-stricken people and distributed relief goods among them. He also participated in the Hallway Monument Movement from there.
Bangabandhu actively took part in the Pakistan movement, and he also worked to save the people from the riots by risking his life at that time, the release said, adding a big chapter of his political activities was written there.
The 2020-2021 has been declared by the government as Mujib Year to celebrate the great leader's birth centenary, and the celebration programs will start on March 17.
