Nation to celebrate 53rd Victory Day Saturday

Various programmes will be held on this day to pay deep homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country during the Liberation War in 1971.

The nation is set to celebrate 53rd Victory Day on Saturday with due solemnity and rich tributes paid to the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971.

Elaborate programs have been arranged marking the most joyous December 16th when the country was born against the supreme sacrifice of three million martyrs and the honour of nearly half a million mothers and sisters.

On this glorious day in 1971, Bangladesh was liberated as an independent country after the Pakistani occupation forces surrendered following a bloody nine-month-long war.

Various programmess will be held on this day to pay deep homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country during the Liberation War in 1971.

Along with the government, different socio-political, educational and cultural institutions and organizations have chalked out a series of programs to celebrate the day. Bangladeshis will celebrate the day at home and abroad.

The day’s program will begin with a 31-gun salute.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Mausoleum in Savar with the rising of sun.

They will be followed by the freedom fighters and their family members, foreign diplomats, leaders of Awami League and different political and social organizations and people from all walks of life.

Later, foreign diplomats, leaders of different political and social organizations and people from all walks of life will place wreaths to pay homage to the martyrs.

The national flag will be hoisted atop government, semi-government, autonomous and private offices across the country.

All children's parks and museums will be open to the public without tickets and cinema halls will screen films based on the Liberation War for free.

On this day, an exhibition of documentary films and posters based on the history and tradition of the Liberation War will be organized at the “Swadhinota Stombha” and the Museum of Suhrawardy Udyan.

Bangladesh embassies abroad will also undertake similar programs highlighting the significance of the day.

The day is a public holiday. National dailies will bring out special supplements on the occasion.

State-owned and private television channels and radios will broadcast month- long special programs highlighting the significance of the Liberation War.

Receptions will be accorded to the freedom fighters and family members of martyrs at city, district and upazila levels.

Destitute children will be allowed to visit the children park in the capital on the day free of cost. Improved diets will be served in jails, hospitals, orphanages across the country.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have extended their greetings and warm felicitations to the countrymen living at home and abroad on the occasion of the 53rd Victory Day.

They issued separate messages on the eve of the Victory Day on Friday.