Today is Sheikh Jamal's 71st birthday
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's second son Sheikh Jamal's 71st birthday today (April 28). He was born on this day in 1954 in Tungipara village of Gopalganj district. Sheikh Jamal passed Matriculation from Dhaka Residential Model College and Intermediate from Dhaka College.
A lover of culture and sports, Sheikh Jamal joined an institute to learn the guitar and was also a good cricketer.
Sheikh Jamal was also under house arrest along with other family members during the Great War of Liberation in 1971. He escaped from there and led the frontline in the Great War of Liberation. After a very dangerous journey from Dhanmondi, Sheikh Jamal reached Agartala, India and joined Mujib Bahini (Bangladesh Liberation Forces, BLF) there after training and participated in the frontal battle in Sector 9 of the Liberation War.
Sheikh Jamal was a patriotic brilliant army officer. He was a commissioned officer in the first batch of the long-term course of the Bangladesh Army. In 1974, Sheikh Jamal attended a training camp as a cadet at the Military Academy of Yugoslavia. Then, after training from Sandhurst Academy in Britain, he returned to the country and joined as the Second Lieutenant in the Second East Bengal Regiment in Dhaka Cantonment.
During his short service in the Second East Bengal, he left an impression of extraordinary professionalism and sincerity among the officers and soldiers. Within weeks, Sheikh Jamal became one of the officers and soldiers. Impress the soldiers by participating in the training ground, in the tactical class, in the obstacle crossing. He used to train the members of the battalion boxing team. On August 14, 1975, he performed his duties in the cantonment as a battalion duty officer. That night he returned from the cantonment to Dhanmondi 32 house. On August 15, 1975, Sheikh Jamal was killed along with other family members by the merciless bullet of an assassin.
On the occasion of celebrating Shaheed Sheikh Jamal's birthday with due dignity, a special prayer will be held at Banani graveyard at 9 am on Sunday at the initiative of Awami League.