Bangabandhu's Homecoming Day observed
Opposition Awami League (AL) and its front organisations observed the Bangabandhu's Homecoming Day with due respect across the country on Tuesday.
On this day in 1972, father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned home from Pakistan after confinement in jail during the nine-month-long war leading to the independence of Bangladesh.
Bangabandhu, arrested from his Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka on the night of March 25, 1971, was taken to the then West Pakistan and kept in prison.
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AL leaders and workers also placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum here at 7:00am.
Gopalganj district AL also placed wreaths at the graveyard of Bangabandhu at Tungipara.