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PM-BANGABANDHU-COUNTDOWN
PM opens Bangabandhu’s birth centenary countdown
DHAKA, Jan 10, 2020 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated
the countdown for yearlong celebration of the “Mujib Year” marking the birth
centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,
coinciding with his 1972 return home from Pakistan captivity.
“I open the countdown,” she said at a grand ceremony at the Old Airport,
the scene where Bangabandhu first touched the soil of his independent
Bangladesh on his return home, celebrated as his historic Homecoming Day.
Sheikh Hasina expected the people to put Bangladesh in a dignified position
on the world stage by establishing “Sonar Bangladesh” as dreamt by the Father
of the Nation.
“Bangabandhu had handed over to us the victory torch and we want to move
forward with it,” the premier said.
Weeks after the December 16, 1971 Victory from the Pakistani occupation,
Bangabandhu landed at the then Dhaka International Airport at Tejgaon as a
British Royal Air Force aircraft (C-130J) carried the country’s founding
father from London en-route New Delhi.
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