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‘Khapra Ward Day’ passed again silently due to Covid-19 183 RAJSHAHI, April 25, 2021 (BSS) – The historic ‘Khapra Ward Day’ passed here yesterday without any formal programme for the second consecutive time due to the coronavirus pandemic. The local units of left-leaning political parties, including Workers Party, Communist Party and National Awami Party postponed their scheduled programme for the second time. Various political parties had long been observing the day every year in a befitting manner at Shaheed Minar in front of Khapra Ward inside the Rajshahi Central Jail paying rich tributes to seven detained communist political prisoners who were killed in 1950. According to the historic records, on this day in 1950, the then on-duty jail guards following the order of a jailer shot dead seven communist party leaders, who were detained in Khapra Ward of Rajshahi Central Jail, as they tried to protest the inhuman behaviour meted out to them. ....