BNP and its associate bodies will observe ‘Shaheed Jihad Day’ on Tuesday, marking the 33rd anniversary of the martyrdom of Nazir Uddin Ahmed Jihad.
Jihad, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist of Ullapara Upazila in Sirajganj, was shot to death in Dhaka on October 10, 1990, during the anti-Ershad movement.
JCD central leaders will place a wreath at Jihad memorial plaque at Dainik Bangla crossing in the morning in observance of the day.
A group of student leaders of the 90s and Jihad Smriti Parishad will arrange a discussion in memory of Jihad at Jatiya Press Club on Tuesday, marking the day.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal will observe the day with various programmes in different parts of the country.
Meanwhile, BNP acting chairmanTarique Rahman and secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir issued separate messages on the occasion paying respect to the memory of Jihad and seeking the salvation of his departed soul.
On this day 30 years back, Jihad, the then president of Government Akbar Ali College unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, along with 60 other students from Ullapara, joined the grand rally at Paltan in the capital organised by the BNP-led seven-party alliance to call for ending HM Ershad's autocratic regime.
Around 4:00 pm, police charged batons at the rally and fired gunshots. Hit by a bullet, Jihad died on the spot.