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DAY-VICTORY-LEAD-2 LAST DHAKA
Marking the Day, ruling Awami League (AL) has taken elaborate programmes to celebrate the country’s 50th Victory Day.
As a part of its programme, the national flag and the party flag will be hoisted atop the AL central office, Bangabandhu Bhaban and offices of all organizational units of the party across the country at dawn.
The programmes also include placing of wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar at 9am and paying homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban at 10am.
Leaders and workers of the party will place wreaths at the Mausoleum of Bangabandhu at Tungipara in Gopalganj at 9.30am. Doa and milad mahfil will also be held on the occasion.
AL central working committee members Azizus Samad Azad Don and Syed Abdul Awal Shamim will join the programme at Tungipara in Gopalganj.
A discussion will be held at 3pm at the AL’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue marking the Victory Day.
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will address the discussion through a videoconferencing.
AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader urged the leaders and workers of the party and its associate bodies to celebrate the Victory Day with due respect following the central programme.
He also called upon all to follow the health guidelines properly during the celebration of the Victory Day.
The day is a public holiday.
National dailies will bring out special supplements on the occasion while Bangladesh Postal Department will release memorial postal stump to mark the day.
The state-owned and private televisions and radios will broadcast special programmes highlighting the Liberation War.
The victory day celebration had reached a new height following the UNESCO’s recognition of Bangabandhu’s historic March 7th Speech as a part of the world’s documentary heritage in 2017.
On October 30 in 2017, the UNESCO announced the prestigious acknowledgement of one of the world’s most glorious speeches, through which Bangabandhu effectively decelerated the country’s independence in a mammoth public rally at Ramna Racecourse ground (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka on March 7, 1971.
The speech inspired the Bengali nation in their quest for freedom and energised freedom loving people for freeing the country through War of Liberation.
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