DHAKA, Nov 27, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladesh Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad (BSPP) today paid homage to Dr Shamsul Alam Milon on his 34th martyrdom anniversary. 

The BSPP leaders paid glowing tributes to him by placing a wreath at his graveyard on Dhaka Medical College premises here as they also offered fateha and special munajat seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of Dr Milon.

BSPP's Convener Prof. Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, Member Secretary Quader Gani Chowdhury, Prof. Dr Farhad Halim Donar, Prof. Dr Harun-Al Rashid, Dr Abdus Salam, Dr Rafiqul Islam, Dr Rafiqul Islam Labu, Engineer Shakawat Hossain, Engineer Fakhrul Alam, Biplobuzzaman Biplob and Hafizur Raham were present.

Recalling the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Dr Milon, Dr Zahid Hossain said, "We want a humanitarian Bangladesh where the country would be free from killing, forcibly disappearance and repression. There will equality based justice".

Quader Gani Chowdhury said in his speech, "We never want any tyrant or fascist on the soil of this country ".

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

The movement got momentum following his martyrdom and autocratic Ershad had to quit power finally in the face of a steep mass movement.