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For Bangladeshis, observing Mujibnagar Day is a moral responsibility. It’s more important now

Today, as we stand amid new trials and shifting political landscapes, the spirit of Mujibnagar demands renewed vigilance.

The seventeenth of April stands in solemn grandeur in Bangladesh’s sacred chronicle—a day that is revered. The Mujibnagar Day marks a defining watershed in the epic saga of the 1971 Liberation War, when a dispossessed yet indomitable people forged the institutional soul of their nascent state amid exile, adversity, and fire.

History, in its deepest essence, is not merely a procession of dates and events, but a testament to human courage, moral resolve, and the unyielding pursuit of justice. Bangladesh, shaped by convulsions of rebellion, war, sacrifice, and triumph, bears witness to many such turning points. Yet, Mujibnagar Day rises above them all as an epochal moment when vision crystallised into governance, and aspiration assumed the mantle of sovereignty.

On 10 April 1971, in the shadow of unspeakable atrocities unleashed by the Pakistani military junta, the first government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh was formally constituted in exile. Though deprived of territorial control, it commanded a far greater authority—the sovereign will of millions yearning for freedom. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the undisputed architect of independence, stood as President in absentia, his moral authority illuminating the path forward. 

In his enforced captivity by the brutal Pakistani army, Syed Nazrul Islam was acting President, while Tajuddin Ahmad, with extraordinary foresight and administrative genius, steered the machinery of the state as Prime Minister. The appointment of General MAG Osmani as Commander-in-Chief........

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