Indian envoy inaugurates 'Mrityunjayi Mitra' sculpture at Sitakunda
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami inaugurated a sculpture titled 'Mrityunjayi Mitra' at Sitakunda upazila of the district to pay homage to the sacrifices created by Indian soldiers through the Liberation War of Bangladesh, reports BSS.
The Indian envoy inaugurated the sculpture as chief guest each morning while former minister and Presidium Person in Bangladesh Awami League Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, MP, local MP Alhaj Didarul Alam, President of Chattogram North District Awami League and Chairman of Chattogram Jilla Parisad MA Salam and its own Member AMM Dilsad were present as special guests on the occasion.
The high commissioner said that India had cooperated a whole lot through the war of independence of Bangladesh. Consequently, many Indian soldiers had been martyred together with the freedom fighters, he added.
He said that Bangladesh-India friendship can last forever.
On 12 December 1971, the Indian Allied Forces and the Mukti Bahani used positions at various places in the Kumira area from Chhota Darogarhat in Sitakunda Upazila in preparation for the war and by using local patriotic persons and attacked on the Pak occupation forces from 10 pm on that day.
This frontal fight was fought from 12 to 16 December and on 16 December Sitakunda was liberated from the Pakistani invaders.
In this heroic battle, innumerable members of the Allied and Liberation Army were martyred. The bodies greater than fifty Allied martyrs had been cremated at the Chandranath Temple area at Sitakunda Sadar and the freedom fighters had been buried at Upazila Health Complex of Sitakunda upazila, local sources said.
