PM joins milad on Ivy�s death anniversary
UNB
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday attended a milad mahfil at the Gulshan residence of late Ivy Rahman, wife of late President Zillur Rahman and former women affairs secretary of Bangladesh Awami League, on the occasion of her 11th death anniversary, reports UNB. A special munajat was offered on the occasion, seeking the eternal peace of the departed souls of Ivy Rahman, Zillur Rahman and other victims of the August 21 carnage.
Relatives, friends and well-wishers of the deceased as well as ministers, parliament members, leaders of Awami League and its associate bodies and directors of Bangladesh Cricket Board joined the milad mahfil held after Asr prayers.
They included Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid Bipu, Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Information AKM Rahmatullah, PMs Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim and Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil. Earlier, the Prime Minister talked to the deceaseds family members, including Nazmul Hasan Papon, MP, son of late President Zillur Rahman and Ivy Rahman, and consoled them. On this day in 2004, Ivy Rahman succumbed to splinter injuries she suffered in the August 21 grisly grenade attack on a peaceful Awami League rally at citys Bangabandhu Avenue. At least 24 leaders and activists, including Awami League women affairs secretary and late President Zillur Rahmans wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and 300 others injured in the grenade attack.
