Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud. File Photo.
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said Bangladesh under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is marching forward in an indomitable speed to materialize the dream of Bangabandhu.
He was addressing a discussion of AL marking the Independence and National Day 2022 at the party's central office at Bangabandhu Avenue here.
Hasan said just after the creation of Pakistan, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Father of the Nation and the great architect of independent Bangladesh, had realized that emancipation of Bangalees could not be possible in Pakistani state system rather "our language, culture, traditions and heritages are also facing threat".
So, young Sheikh Mujib, in a statement on August 12 in 1948, called upon the people to observe the first Independence Day of Pakistan on August 14 as a day for taking oath to get rid of the chains of the oppressors of West instead of celebrating the day with joy and ecstasy, he said.
After crossing the path of long struggles, Bangabandhu declared the independence at the mammoth rally of tens of thousands of people on March 7 in 1971 but he directly didn't say that Bangladesh is independent, Hasan mentioned.
Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, covering the event, reported to the headquarters, "The clever Sheikh Mujib got away with declaring independence, we kept looking."
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