The Birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will also be celebrated all over the world in line with the initiative of Unesco.

The year-long celebrations marking the 100th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of independent Bangladesh, get underway throughout the country on Tuesday. The birth centenary of Bangabandhu will also be celebrated all over the world in line with the initiative of Unesco. President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead the nation in observing Mujib Borsho, or Mujib Year, the year-long celebration of the birth centenary. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Awami League, is scheduled to place wreaths at Bangabandhu portrait at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Dhanmondi Road No 32 in Dhaka in the morning. On this day in 1920, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born to Sheikh Lutfar Rahman and Sayera Khatun in Tungipara of Gopalganj, then a sub-district of Faridpur. The day is a public holiday and is also being observed as National Childrens Day, as Bangabandhu enjoyed spending time with children on his birthday.    The president and prime minister have issued separate messages to mark the occasion. They will pay homage to Bangabandhu by placing wreaths at his mausoleum at Tungipara and offer special prayers. Pre-recorded speeches of the president and the prime minister will be broadcast via national hookups in the evening since the Mujib Borsho programs were curtailed to avoid any mass gathering due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bangabandhu's fight for an independent BangladeshNicknamed Khoka, Bangabandhu got involved in politics in his adolescence and was arrested for the first time as an eighth-grader of Gopalganj Mission School for joining the movement against British rule. He founded the Chhatra League in 1948 and was instrumental in the founding of the Awami Muslim League, which later became the Awami League, in 1949. Through his dynamic leadership, Bangabandhu organized the Bangali nation in the struggle against exploitation and repression by Pakistani rulers between 1947 and 1971. On March 7, 1971, he delivered the historic speech that inspired Bangalis in their movement against subjugation and subordination by West Pakistan, declaiming, Our struggle is for our freedom. Our struggle is for our independence.A few weeks later, in the early hours of March 26, he declared Bangladesh independence before being arrested by the Pakistani occupation army. The movement culminated in the emergence of independent Bangladesh through a nine-month Liberation War in 1971. On returning from imprisonment in Pakistan after liberation, Mujib began rebuilding the war-ravaged state. On August 15, 1975, the great leader, along with most of his family members, was assassinated by a disgruntled group of army men.

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