Rajshahi’s First Shaheed Minar
In the immediate aftermath of February 21, 1952, residents of Rajshahi went to work and built a Shaheed Minar near the Muslim Hostel premises of Rajshahi Government College. The Shaheed Minar still stands today, though not with as much prestige as Dhaka's Central Shaheed Minar is afforded. In fact, the entirety of Rajshahi city doesn't have a Central Shaheed Minar, which means on the International Mother Language Day, people pay homage to the martyrs at the ones at Bhubanmohan Park Memorial and the court area. In light of this, Language Movement veterans started demanding the preservation of the Muslim Hostel Shaheed Minar, which led Rajshahi City Corporation to take up a project in this regard in October 2018. One Sabera Enterprise was tasked with the construction works, which were slated to be completed by June 2020. But four-and-a-half years have passed by and the project is yet to finish. According to RCC, the work was estimated to cost Tk 50 lakh, which was later revised m...