Historic March 7 today

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FE Team | Published: March 07, 2009 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

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The historic March 7 will be observed across the country today commemorating the momentous speech delivered by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur

Rahman in a public meeting at Racecourse Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) on this day in 1971, reports BSS.

Through the speech at a mammoth gathering, Bangabandhu virtually declared the independence of Bangladesh by saying that "