The Central Shaheed Minar in the capital bedecked with flowers — File Photo The nation observes the 'Shaheed Dibash' (Language Martyrs Day) and the International Mother Language Day today (Thursday) with elaborate programmes, reports BSS.
People from all walks of life will pay tributes to the language movement martyrs, the valiant sons of the soil, who made supreme sacrifices in 1952 to establish the rights of the mother language, Bangla.
The day is being observed around the world, as the UNESCO on November 17 in 1999 recognised the Ekushey February as the International Mother Language Day.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on Wednesday, paying glowing tributes to the martyrs of the historic language movement.
In his message, President Hamid said the aim of the language movement was to establish the right of the mother language as well as to protect self-entity, culture and heritage.
Being a source of ceaseless inspiration, he said, the Amar Ekushey (Immortal Ekushey) inspired and encouraged the Bangalees to a great extent to achieve the right to self-determination and struggle for freedom and independence.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, said upholding the spirit of Ekushey and the war of liberation, her government achieved a huge progress in every sector, including macro economy, agriculture, education, health, communication, information technology, infrastructure, power, rural development, diplomatic success and cooperation in the last 10 years.
"Bangladesh is now a 'role model' for development in the world."
She also said the people made Bangladesh Awami League victorious in the recent 11th parliamentary elections.
"We will fully honour the huge mandate that the people of our country have given us. We will turn Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 and a developed one by 2041, InshaAllah.
"Let us build a hunger-poverty-free and happy, prosperous Sonar Bangladesh as dreamt by the Father of the Nation being imbued with the spirit of the great Ekushey," the Prime Minister said.
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