Shaheed Dr Milon Day observed

The Shaheed Dr Milon Day was observed on Monday with due respect commemorating the 27th martyrdom anniversary of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon during the anti-autocratic movement in 1990.

Leaders and workers of different political parties and socio-cultural organisations paid tributes to Shaheed Milon by placing wreaths at his grave on the Dhaka Medical College campus, marking the day.

On this day in 1990, Dr Milon, the then joint secretary general of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), was shot dead by gunmen near the TSC on the Dhaka University campus on his way to a meeting against the then autocratic ruler HM Ershad.

Several socio-cultural and political organisations as well as professional bodies organised various programmes, including discussion, milad mahfil, and offering fateha.

The leaders of Awami League, BNP, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Workers’ Party, Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College University and different professional bodies and Milon’s family members placed wreaths at his grave and offered fateha there.

They also placed wreaths at the monument of Dr Milon near the TSC of Dhaka University.

Bangladesh Medical Association also organised a discussion at Dr Milon Chattar of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, marking the day.