President Abdul Hamid has extended heartfelt greetings and warm felicitations to the countrymen at home and abroad on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Victory Day.
“Today is 16th December, the Great Victory Day. Responding to the call of the greatest Bangalee of all time, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Bangalee nation achieved the ultimate victory on this day in 1971 after a 23-year intense political struggle and a 9-month bloody war against the Pakistani occupation forces,” the President said in a message on the eve of the victory day.
“On this glorious day, I pay my deep homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. I recall with gratitude the four national leaders, and three million martyrs, who sacrificed their lives and two hundred thousand women, who lost their innocence for the cause of our independence,” said the President.
He said Bangalee nation got prepared for independence waging the Language Movement of 1952, the Education Movement of 1962, the 6-point Demand of 1966, 11-point Movement and the Mass Upsurge of 1969 under the undaunted leadership of the Father of the Nation.
President Hamid said Awami League earned an overwhelming majority in the general elections of 1970 through which Bangalee nation’s aspiration for independence got legal basis, Bangbandhu realised that the oppression, persecution and deprivation meted out to the Bangalee nation would not be ended without achieving the independence.
