Mujib Year celebrations start with illuminating skyline of Dhaka
The skyline of the capital Dhaka and rest of the country were illuminated with grand fireworks on Tuesday night as Bangladesh kicked off the Mujib Year celebrations marking the birth centenary of Dad of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
"His ideals happen to be our eternal way to obtain inspiration," President Abdul Hamid explained opening the centenary celebrations on a nationwide televised speech as the country witnessed the illuminated skylines with the staging of the key fireworks at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan.
In an emotion-choked documented televised statement accompanied by the President, Primary Minster Sheikh Hasina said the nation would stay awake forever with its founder's ideology and uphold the flag distributed by him.
"Dad, sleep in peace . . . your Bangladesh is marching towards advancement at an indomitable pace and will just do it further more," said Sheikh Hasina, who is Bangabandhu's elder daughter as well.
Regardless of the scaled down festivity revising the initial celebration opening plans in view of the global coronavirus pandemic, the administrative centre Dhaka appeared jubilant with sounds of fireworks and illumination at 8 pm, the birth moment of Bangabandhu a century ago.
Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Indian Primary Minister Narendra Modi, Bhutanese Primary Minister Dr Lotay Tshering, UN Secretary Basic Antonio Guterres and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary Standard Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen were foreign dignitaries who also in their own voice greeted Bangladesh.
The state-run BTV and private TV channels broadcast their speeches while mainstream newspapers carried online special editions with emotional headlines, one of those saying “Bangabandhu has no death, only birthdays".
Another newspaper wrote "His (Bangabandhu's) general public life started as a schoolboy. And it by no means stopped till his previous breath when he, along with all customers of his immediate family group, save both daughters, Hasina and Rehana, had been brutally murdered on 15th August 1975".
Bangabandhu's younger daughter Sheikh Rehana took part found in a good nationwide function broadcast by all Television set channels with a style tune titled "Tumi Banglar Dhrubotara" or perhaps "you Bengal's polestar', when country’s 100 leading signers gave their voice.
Sheikh Rehana as well gave a brief statement which was followed by recitation of a good poem titled "Baba" by Sheikh Hasina, compiled by her younger sister.
The TV channels broadcast live the two-hour-lengthy "Muktir Mohanayak" programme when 100 children attired in colourful dresses took part in chorus in another song "Dhanya Mujib Dhanya".
Leading artistes performed music and dances usually in the background of the songs by the nation’s two important poets Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.
The programme included aswell exclusive performance of renowned drum players and recitation of poems by famous poets.
