C T Online Desk: The historic Six-Point Day, marking the demand for autonomy for the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, is being observed today in the port city as elsewhere in the country in a befitting manner.
On June 7 in 1966, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman launched a massive movement against the misrule of the then Pakistanis on the basis of the 6-point demand, the Magna Carta of the Bengalis, demanding
autonomy for the then East Pakistan.
Eleven people, including Manu Mian, Shafique and Shamsul Haque, were gunned down by the police and paramilitary EPR on June 7, 1966 in Dhaka and Narayanganj during a hartal called for the release of Bangabandhu and other
leaders detained for launching the Six-Point Movement against the then barbaric ruling clique. Awamileague and its front organisations in Port city arranged a discussion meeting at party office in the city with Acting AL President Mahtabuddin chowdhury in the chair.
