Shaheed Asad Day today

Today is the Shaheed Asad Day.

The day will be observed commemorating the supreme sacrifice of student leader Asad during the days of mass uprising of 1969 that led to the country’s independence.

On this day in 1969, Asaduzzaman was killed in firing by Pakistani forces before Dhaka Medical College Hospital while protesting their repression on the then East Pakistan people.

Then the graduate student of history at Dhaka University, Asad was also the DU unit president and Dhaka city unit general secretary of erstwhile East Pakistan Chhatra Union.

Field Marshal Ayub Khan of Pakistan was forced to step down amid a mass revolt fuelled by the incident.