Sources: The Daily Star and Bangladesh public holidays. Yesterday, on Sunday, August 6, advocate Mozammel Huq, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC), asking it to issues directives reinstating August 15 as the National Day of Mourning and a public holiday. The HC division bench is likely to hear the writ today.Analysis: Over the last few weeks, there have been repeated calls in the Bangladesh media to reinstate August 15 as a public holiday , a date which commemorates the death, on August 15, 1975, of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. It became a public holiday in 1996, but then, in 2002, the BNP-led alliance government cancelled the public holiday.
Update (Monday night; The Daily Star): The High Court (HC) issued a ruling, late this afternoon (Bangladesh time), asking the government to explain, within a week, why the Cabinet Division's order issued in August 2002, cancelling the national mourning day and a public holiday on August 15, should not be declared illegal. It is therefore becoming likely that the August 15 public holiday will be reinstated. We will continue to monitor developments on this topic.
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