Cumilla people pay rich tributes to Shib Narayan Das

 
After the tributes at the Shaheed Minar, Shib Narayan Das's body was taken to his ancestral home in Cumilla.
The body of the one of the designers of the first flag of Bangladesh and a freedom fighter reached to Cumilla Town Hall ground at around 4:00pm on Saturday.

Cumilla-6 constituency MP AKM Bahauddin Bahar paid homage by placing a floral wreath on the coffin of the deceased.  
On behalf of Cumilla City Corporation and district administration, Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Pankaj Barua, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kazi Motiul Islam from the district police paid tributes to this freedom fighter. 

Cumilla District Awami League, Cumilla Metropolitan Awami League, Jubo League, Chhatra League, Sramik League, Swecchasebok League, Cumilla Metropolitan BNP, Cumilla Education Board, District Health Division, Cumilla Sangskritik Jote, Bondhu Forum, International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Bangladesh Communist Party, Engineers' Institution Bangladesh (IEB), Jatiya Sramik League, Sanglap Protivimbo along with various social and cultural organizations also paid tributes to him by laying wreaths.

To mention, Shib Narayan Das was one of the Chhatra League leaders who designed the iconic red and green flag with a yellow image of the Bangladesh map at its centre at a Dhaka University residential hall in 1970. The flag was an integral part of Bangladesh's struggle for independence and was flown for the first time at the Kala Bhaban at Dhaka University on Mar 2, 1971. In 1972, after Bangladesh gained its independence, the government tasked artist Quamrul Hassan to re-design the flag. Hassan's design removed the yellow map and finalized the green and red design as Bangladesh's national flag.

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