AL pays homage to Bangabandhu on historic March 7

Bangladesh Awami League on Monday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the historic March 7. 

The central AL leaders - led by party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader - paid the homage by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the capital this morning. 

Awami League presidium members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Shahjahan Khan, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Khairuzzaman Liton, Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, Dr Hasan Mahmud, Organizing Secretary Ahmed Hossain, BM Mozammel Haque, Mirza Azam, SM Kamal Hossain, Afzal Hossain, Publicity and Publication Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, International Affairs Secretary Sammi Ahmed, Office Secretary Barrister Biplob Barua, Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Science and Technology Affairs Secretary Abdus Sabur, Central Committee Member Iqbal Hossain Apu, Marufa Akter Popi and many others were present on the occasion. 

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 an 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)”. 

The historic March 7 speech of the Father of the Nation was included in the Memory of the World International Register, a list of world's important documentary heritage maintained by UNESCO on October 30 in 2017.