President Zillur Rahman’s first death anniversary is today. Marking the day, ruling AL and different socio-political organisations have chalked out various programmes, including placing wreaths at his grave, holding milad mahfils and discussions.
Meanwhile yesterday, Zillur Rahman Smirti Sangsad arranged a memorial meeting on the occasion of the anniversary at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
The country’s 19th President Zillur Rahman had assumed office on February 12, 2009 and died at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital on March 20 at the age of 84, who was the third President of Bangladesh after Bangabandhu and Ziaur Rahman to have died while in office.
Zillur Rahman was born on March 9, 1929 and he had been an active player in the watersheds in the nation’s political history -- the 1952 Language Movement the 1962 anti-military rule movement, the 1966 Six-Point Movement, the 1969 Civil Uprising and the 1971 War of Independence and the 1990 Anti-Autocracy Movement.
