City Desk :
The Meghalaya state unit of India’s National Congress held a discussion in the state’s capital Shillong on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh Liberation War 1971, reports BSS.
The programmmes was organized as part of month-long programmes announced by the Indian National Congress last month to commemorate the event in all state capitals of India.
The month-long programme started on November 16. The programme will be culminated in a national programme in New Delhi on December 16, the Victory Day of Bangladesh.
Representatives from Bangladesh government will be invited to attend the programme, Congress sources told BSS recently.
Under the programs, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) has already organized such programmes at nearly 100 places in various states to mark the occasion.
In Shillong, Congress leader and Convener of Bangladesh Liberation War Commemoration Committee of the AICC Captain Praveen Davar took part at a discussion as the chief guest on Saturday.
People from all walks of life, including students and women, attended the gathering where Captain Davar spoke on the birth of Bangladesh as a sovereign state after a long struggle against the Pakistani occupation forces.
He paid homage to the memory of millions of freedom fighters including the Indian soldiers, who embraced martyrdom during the 1971 Liberation War.
However, the Indian National Congress has launched a photo exhibition on ‘Bangladesh’s War of Liberation’ in 1971 at the party’s 24 Akbar Road office in New Delhi.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhu Vadra inaugurated the photo exhibition on October 13. Hundreds of photos on Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war are being displayed in the exhibition.
The photos on the meeting of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Bangabandhu’s historic 7th March speech, photos of freedom fighters and Indian soldiers depicting their courage in the war fields are also put on display, among others.
Besides, the historic photos on the surrender of over 93,000 Pakistani soldiers at the then Race cross maidan now in Suhrawardy Udayan and actions of freedom fighters in the war fields are being displayed in the exhibition.
A 10-member committee headed by former Defence Minister AK Antony was formed on October to organize several other programmes at all state capitals to mark the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence.
