Bangladesh observes homecoming day of Bangabandhu

Dhaka, Jan 10 (UNI-) Bangladesh on Monday observed the historic 50th Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
On the occasion, Bangladesh President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the Father of the Nation.
Several programs will be held to mark the occasion by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee.
The ruling party, Awami League (AL), will also be organizing various programs to observe the historic day. Bangabandhu, supreme commander of the country’s Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972, after 290 days of confinement in Pakistan jail.
On the night of March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army arrested Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from his Dhanmondi 32 No residence and sent him to a West Pakistani jail the following day.
Sheikh Mujib was subjected to inhuman torture in the Pakistan jail where he had been counting moments for the execution of his death sentence that was pronounced in a farcical trial.
“I was a prisoner in the condemned cell awaiting hanging. From the day I went into jail, I didn’t know whether I would be alive or not. I was mentally ready to die. But I knew Bangladesh would be liberated,” Bangabandhu spoke emotionally about his ordeal in Pakistani prison at a news conference in London.
About the Pakistan army’s genocide on Bangalees, Mujib said: “If Hitler had been alive today, he would have been ashamed.”
On March 26, 1971, Bangabandhu had proclaimed independence of Bangladesh and urged people from all walks of life to participate wholeheartedly in the nation’s War of Liberation.
Immediately after the proclamation of independence, Bangabandhu was arrested by Pakistani military and then flown to West Pakistan to keep him in prison there.
Though the final victory through the nine-month-long bloody War of Liberation was achieved defeating Pakistani occupation forces on December 16, 1971, the people got the real taste of victory with the homecoming of Bangabandhu on January 10, 1972.
On reaching Dhaka (Tejgaon) airport in the afternoon on January 10, Bangabandhu was greeted by tens of thousands of jubilant people who had been eagerly waiting to see their beloved leader since the victory on December 16, 1971.