Bangladesh women’s national football team received Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Padak-2023 on the occasion of the 93rd birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina distributed the award to the country’s four prominent women and the football team at a ceremony as the chief guest in the city’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium.

Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and mother of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was born at Tungipara village in Gopalganj on this day in 1930.

Bangamata was killed brutally along with Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on the fateful night of August 15 in 1975.

Meanwhile, the country’s sports fraternity celebrated the 93rd birth anniversary of Bangamata through different programmes on this day. 

The Ministry of Youth and Sports arranged a discussion on Bangamata at the Ministry of Youth and Sports meeting room in the Bangladesh Secretariat.

Bangladesh Cricket Board also arranged Quran Khwani, doa-mahfil and distributed food among people at its premises in Mirpur.