On the occasion of the historic March 7, Prime Minister Sheik Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Bangabandhu Nation Sheik Mujibur Rahman.
The Premier paid homage by placing a wreath at the city's Father of the Nation portrait this morning in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi.
She stood for some time in respectful silence, after laying the wreath, as a show of profound respect for the memory of Bangabandhu, the independence architect.
Flanked by the party's central leaders, Sheik Hasina, also the president of the Bangladesh Awami League (AL), placed another wreath on her party's behalf at the Father of the Nation portrait.
Later, the leaders and employees of the associated bodies of Awami League, including Awami Jubo League, Chhatra League, Mahila Awami League, Sramik League, Krishak League, Jubo Mohila League and Swechchhasebok League, also paid homage to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths on the occasion of his portrait.
On this day in 1971, Bangabandhu through his fiery and soulful address made a clarion call to the people to fight against the Pakistani occupation forces to achieve the long-cherished independence.
Before a rally of a million of freedom-loving people at the then Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardhy Udyan) on March 7 in 1971, Bangabandhu in a virtual announcement of independence declared, “Ebarer sangram amader muktir sangram, ebarer sangram swadhinatar sangram (the struggle this time is for our freedom, the struggle this time is for our independence)”.
Source: BSS
