The nation on Friday fondly remembered Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of independent Bangladesh, on his 103rd birth anniversary.
The day -- a public holiday -- is also being observed as National Children’s Day.
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Marking the day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the Father of the Nation by placing a wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32 in Dhaka this morning.
After placing the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Bangabandhu, the architect of Bangladesh's independence.
Later, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to Tungipara, Gopalganj and paid tributes to the greatest Bangalee to be born in thousand years.
Flanked by senior leaders of her party, Hasina, also the Awami League President, placed another wreath at the Mazar of Bangabandhu on behalf of the party.
Later, First Lady Rashida Khanam along with her son Rejwan Ahammad Taufiq, MP, as well as the premier along with her family members paid tribute to Bangabandhu by placing floral wreaths separately.
Hamid and Hasina offered Fateha and joined a munajat seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of Bangabandhu as well as other martyrs of the August 15 carnage.
Cabinet members, PM's advisers, parliament members and senior AL leaders were present.
PM Hasina also attended a programme on National Children's Day.
Meanwhile, Television channels and radio stations are airing special programmes marking the day.
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On this day in 1920, Bangabandhu was born in Tungipara village. While studying at Islamia College in Kolkata, he got involved in active politics.
Both while in and out of jail, Bangabandhu led the Language Movement in 1952. When on February 21, 1952, several language activists were killed during a protest in Dhaka, Bangabandhu was observing a hunger strike in jail.
In continuation of the Language Movement, all major movements of Bengalis, including the general elections in 1970 and the War of Liberation in 1971, were led by Bangabandhu.
Through his dynamic leadership, Bangabandhu had organised the Bengali nation to fight against exploitation and repression by then Pakistani rulers. The movement culminated in independent Bangladesh through the nine-month Liberation War in 1971.
When Bangabandhu was moving forward with an aim to build a 'Golden Bangladesh' overcoming all obstacles, the defeated and anti-liberation war clique assassinated him, along with most of his family members, on August 15, 1975.