Siliguri’s Own Sahid Minar to be Inaugurated by Actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay

By Snigdha Som (TNI Siliguri)  |  TNI Editing Siliguri

Webdesk, TNI Siliguri 8^th May, 2017: Tomorrow becomes a historic day for Siliguri. Not because it’s Rabindra Jayanti but for a different issue. It will be a day when Siliguri is going to get its own Language Martyr tower (Bhasha Sahid Minar) inaugurated on the auspicious birthday of Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore at Siliguri’s Baghajatin Park. It’s a mini version of the main Sahid Minar located at Dacca University premises in the capital city of Bangladesh. However, yet it’s of a kind especially in Siliguri. Though there are many Sahid Minars presently adorning many cities worldwide including London yet this for the first time in North Bengal.

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The chief guest on this occasion is none other than the veteran and the most loved actor of Bengali Cinema Sri. Soumitra Chattopadhyay. The Sahid Minar is being built by Siliguri Municipal Corporation. It was already declared by the present mayor last year in a press conference covered by TNI that in 2017 it will be completed and inaugurated. According to the SMC sources, the itinerary is that in the morning homage will be paid to the bust of Kabiguru followed by a cultural program. Alongside there would be some recitation done by the famous actor Sri. Soumitra Chattopadhyay.

Photo: Kaushik Bhattacharya (Siliguri)