The birth
centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be
celebrated as 'Mujib Borsho' from March 17, 2020, to March 17, 2021. On the
occasion of Mujib Year 294 programs have been adopted at home and abroad.
Bangabandhu’s birth centenary celebration will
start on his birthday, March 17 (tomorrow). To commemorate this birth
centenary, the Mujib Year countdown will start with the fireworks on March 10,
the homecoming day of Bangabandhu.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Birth Centenary
Celebration National Implementation Committee and National Committee to
Celebrate Birth Centenary was formed on February 14 last year.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead the
119-member Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Birth
Centenary Celebration National Committee. While National Professor Mohammad
Rafiqul Islam and PM’s former principal secretary Dr. Kamal Abdul Naser
Chowdhury have been made president and chief coordinator of the 79-member
national implementation committee respectively.
The committee members include Bangabandhu’s
younger daughter Sheikh Rehana, Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Chief
Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, political personality, journalist and National
Professors Anisuzzaman and M Rafiqul Islam, vice-chancellors of Dhaka
University, National University, Jahangirnaagar University, Bangladesh
University of Engineering Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University and
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
About 16 departments including the Cabinet
Division, the Ministry of Public Administration, the Ministry of Education, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Information are providing
secretarial support to the Committee.
A total, 294 programs including short films,
screening documentaries, introducing international awards in the name of
Bangabandhu and Green Factory Award have been taken to mark the birth centenary
of Bangabandhu at home and abroad.
There are initiatives for publishing memorial
books in Bangla and English, and selected speeches of Bangabandhu in Bangla.
Besides, there will be various programs including service and concerts.
The main event will be held on March 17 at
Suhrawardy Udyan, with the government and heads of different states,
contemporary political and social figures of Bangabandhu. The main event will
begin at sunrise.
On this day, the program will start
simultaneously in Tungipara of Gopalganj and Dhaka. The National Children's Day
will be organized in Tungipara in the morning. Later in the afternoon, the main
event will be held at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital. In order to
publish the birthday anniversary, souvenirs, commemorative speeches, cultural
events will be organized by local and foreign artists. Rally will be organized
across the country on this day. All-important installations will be arranged,
roadways.
A special session will be convened in the
Parliament on March 18, so that invited guests from different countries will be
present. Various events will be held on March 25, the Massacre Day and March
26, Independence Day. On April 17, Mujibnagar Government Day will be celebrated
at Meherpur. The six-point day will be celebrated across the country on June 7.
The seminar will be held at the Rose Garden on
June 23, the establishment anniversary of the Awami League. There will be a
variety of events throughout the month of August, centered on August 15, the
National Mourning Day.
Bangabandhu delivered his first speech in Bengal
at the UN General Assembly on September 25, 1974. Therefore, the importance and
significance of delivering a speech in Bangla by Bangabandhu at the United
Nations on September 25 this year will be discussed. A discussion and seminar
will also be held on the same day in Bangladesh. At the same time, the speech
will be aired through TV, radio, social media as well as all over the country.
There will be various meetings, seminars,
including jail day and intellectual killing day.
This time, Victory Day will be celebrated in a
much brighter fashion than other times. Bangabandhu was given the title of
Father of the Nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on February 23, 1969. It is
planned to commemorate that day in 2021. On that day, a meeting, cultural
program, and exhibition will be organized in Suhrawardy Udyan. A seven-day
program and Joy Bangla concert will be organized from March 7, 2021.
As part of the celebration of Mujib Year,
initiatives have been taken to set up five Bangabandhu chairs abroad, including
the University of London and Visva-Bharati University.
An initiative has been taken to set up the
Bangabandhu Center at the University of Cambridge. In the House of Lords of the
British Parliament, dignitaries will be invited to organize the birth
anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib and also to have a personal
relationship with the Bangabandhu.
An initiative has been taken to set up the
Bangabandhu sculpture at the Madam Tuso Museum and the UN Headquarters in
London. There is an exhibition of paintings and photographs based on the life
and ideals of Bangabandhu at the British Museum.
The Bangabandhu Fellowship and Internship
Program will be launched at the United Nations Permanent Mission to Bangladesh.
A short film and a video film will be made on a trip abroad
of Bangabandhu. In addition to Bangabandhu, various exhibitions of audio,
video and stills of seminars have been organized in different cities of the
world. There will be civic gatherings in Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam and
Shillong, India.
Apart from this, 100 trees will be planted in
all the countries across the world under the initiative of the Foreign
Ministry. A seminar on 'Bangabandhu and Bangladesh' is organized with prominent
people in the United States. The seminar on Bangabandhu and the independence of
Bangladesh are also organized at the South Asian Institute of Harvard
University in May this year.
There will be seminars, discussions on
Bangabandhu in various public universities, private universities in Bangladesh.
Seminars, workshops, and discussion meetings will be organized on the brutality
and confession of witnesses in the killing of Bangabandhu.
Amar Ekushey Book Fair - 2021 will be dedicated
to Bangabandhu. Dhaka International Book Fair will be held in November on the
occasion of its anniversary. There will be Jatra and folk drama throughout the
country, 63 dances program will be organized at the district level. Two events
will be held with a 3-hour manuscript from Bangabandhu's ' Osamapto Attojiboni'
and 'Karagare Rojnamcha'.
Publications and international publications
include the publication of 'Coffee Table Books Sheikh Mujib Life and Times'
with pictures, sketches, and photographs in English. A Brief Biography of
Bangabandhu will be published.
Books on Bangabandhu in different languages will
be published. Besides, selected speeches of Bangabandhu, in addition to
English, Hindi, Urdu, German, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, Russian,
Italian, Korean, Japanese will be published. There will be one hundred
publications based on Bangabandhu's biographical album, life, and action.
Cultural events, exhibitions, fairs will be
organized at Bangladesh Embassy in different countries. Concerts will be held
at Madison Square in New York or the Royal Albert Hall in Central Park and
London inconvenient times. UNESCO will celebrate the birth anniversary of
Bangabandhu.
Special International Scout Jamboree will be
organized in Gazipur under the initiative of the Ministry of Education to mark
the Mujib Year.
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