Bangabandhu remembered at Bekar Hostel

National Mourning Day was observed in a befitting manner paying homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at his former hostel room at Bekar Hostel in Kolkata.
Bangladesh deputy high commissioner in Kolkata Zaki Ahad and other guests paid tribute to the founder of Bangladesh placing garlands at his bust set up in front of the room where he stayed in his student life during 1945-46.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman spent a span of his student life at the room-24 at the hostel located at 8 Smith Lane in Kolkata.
Sonali Bank, Biman Bangladesh offices at Kolkata and some social and cultural organisations also took part in the National Mourning Day programme in Kolkata.
A special munazat was offerred on the occasion.

Bekar Hostel was established in 1910 for Muslim students of the Calcutta University. But most of the seats were reserved for the students of then Islamia College which now has been renamed as Maulana Azad College.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman stayed at the hostel when he was studying at Islamia College in Kolkata between 1945 and 1946.
Former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu took an initiative to build a museum merging rooms-23 and room-24 at the hostel on a request of the then Bangladesh government in 1998.
Late on 31 July, 1998, former Kolkata higher education minister Satya Sadhan Chakraborty inaugurated the museum.
Bed, chair, table and shelf used by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are kept in the room.