Shaheed Asad Day will be observed on Monday, commemorating the supreme sacrifice of the student leader Asaduzzaman Asad.
On January 20 in 1969, Asaduzzaman Asad, the hero of the 1969 mass upsurge movement, was killed by the Pakistani police at a protest against the atrocities on the people of East Pakistan at a rally near Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Asad, a student of Dhaka University, accelerated the movement of 1969 while dictator Ayub Khan was forced to leave the power, and the dictatorship fell.
In observation of the day, president Mohammad Shahabuddin and chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus delivered separate messages, saying that the sacrifice of martyr Asad would remain a source of inspiration for the democracy-loving people of the country.