AL’s reception for PM Hasina July 21

Ruling Awami League today announced that it will hold a reception programme on July 21 for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for being conferred with Doctor of Literature (DLitt) degree from Kazi Nazrul University (KNU) of India.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader told this to reporters at a briefing at the party’s Dhanmondi office this afternoon.

The reception program will be held at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on July 21, Quader said.

The KNU authorities on May 26 conferred the honorary DLitt degree to Hasina in recognition of her outstanding contributions towards building an exploitation and disparity-free society, which is the ideal of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.

The degree was conferred to the prime minister at a special convocation ceremony of KNU at Asansol in West Bengal of India.