Events chalked out marking Bangabandhu's Homecoming Day

Events chalked out marking   Bangabandhu's Homecoming Day The nation observes today the historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

On this day in 1972, Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the then Pakistan and the architect of the country's independence, returned to independent Bangladesh after over nine and a half months' confinement in a Pakistani jail.

The ruling Awami League, its' front and associate bodies as well as other political and socio-cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day.

AL's programmes include hoisting of the national and party flags at all AL offices across the country at 6:30am, and placing of wreaths at his portrait at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the capital's Dhanmondi at 7:00am.

A rally will be held tomorrow at 2:30pm at Suhrawardy Udyan which will be addressed by AL President Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister.

President Abdul Hamid, PM Sheikh Hasina and AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam issued separate statements marking the day.

President Abdul Hamid said Bangladesh is gradually becoming the "Golden Bengal" as dreamt by Bangabandhu.

Hasina, in her message, vowed to build a hunger and poverty-free, prosperous, non-communal, and peaceful Bangladesh imbued with the spirit of the Liberation War.