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DAY-VICTORY-OBSERVE TWO DHAKA
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokan, AL Joint General Secretaries Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman, Organizing Secretaries BM Mozammel Haque, AFM Bahauddin Nasim and AKM Enamul Haque Shamim, Office Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, Forest and Environment Secretary Delowar Hossain and Deputy Office Secretary Barrister Biplob Barua, among others, were present.
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, members of the cabinet, advisers to the prime minister, parliament members, the chiefs of the three services, the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation, diplomats and high civil and military officials were present on the occasion.
Flanked by senior leaders of the party, Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, laid another wreaths at the National Memorial as the party chief.
Later, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokan and leaders of other political and sociocultural organisations placed wreaths at the National Memorial.
They were followed by the freedom fighters and their family members, foreign diplomats, leaders of Awami League and different political and social organisations and people from all walks of life.
The other political and socio-cultural organizations are included Central 14-party, BNP, Gana Forum, Jukto Front, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Awami Jubo League, Swechasebak League, Chhatra League, Krishak League, Jubo Mohila League, Mohila Awami League, Tanti League, Jatiya Party (JP), Bangladesh Student Union, Jubo Union, Udichi, Bangladesh Red Cross Society, Dhaka Reporters’ Unity, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Dhaka University, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, National University, Bangla Academy, Shilpakala Academy, Open University, Bangabandhu Parishad, Jagannath University, Sector Commanders’ Forum-Muktijuddha 71 and Sammilita Sangskritik Jote.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also paid rich tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban at the historic Dhanmondi 32 in the city.
Awami League and its associate bodies, different educational institutes and socio-cultural and professional organisations also paid homage to the supreme leader of the War of Liberation by placing garlands at his portrait.
The day was a public holiday. The national flag was hoisted atop government, semi-government and private offices as well as offices of autonomous bodies across the country.
Important roads and road islands were decorated with miniature national flags and colourful festoons.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages on the occasion. National dailies were brought out special supplements.
The state-owned and private televisions and radios are broadcasting month-long special programmes highlighting the Liberation War. Different organisations organised discussion and displayed Liberation War related documentary.
Receptions were held to freedom fighters and family members of martyrs at city, district and upazila levels.
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