Bangabandhu's Homecoming Day today

FE Team | Published: January 09, 2024 23:45:38 | Updated: January 10, 2024 00:04:38

The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed today (Wednesday) across the country in a befitting manner.
Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and supreme commander of the country's Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972, after 290 days of confinement in Pakistan jail, reports BSS.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the eve of the day paying glowing tributes to the Father of the Nation. Ruling Awami League (AL) has taken an elaborate programme to observe the historic day.
The programme will begin with hoisting of the national and party flags at the AL central office, Bangabandhu Bhaban, and its party offices across the country at 6.30am while party leaders and activists will pay homage to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban in the city's Dhanmondi-32 at 8.30am.
On the occasion, a rally will be held at Suhrawardy Udyan at 2.30pm on the day with AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Besides, all district, city, upazila, thana, union and ward level units of the AL, its' associate and likeminded bodies will organise similar programmes to observe the day in a befitting manner.
In a statement today, AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader urged all party leaders and activists and its associate and likeminded organisations to hold the programme in a befitting manner.
At the night of March 25 in 1971, Pakistan army arrested Bangabandhu from his Dhanmondi residence and sent him to a West Pakistani jail the following day. Bangabandhu was subjected to inhuman torture in the Pakistan jail where he had been counting moments for the execution of his death sentence that was pronounced in a farcical trial.
"I was a prisoner in the condemned cell awaiting hanging. From the day I went into jail, I didn't know whether I would be alive or not. I was mentally ready to die.