Independence of Bangladesh

March 26, 2021

Independence of Bangladesh

A commemorative postage stamp on the Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh :

Issued by Bangladesh

Issued on Mar 26, 2021

Issued for : In grateful commemoration of the thirty lac martyrs who sacrificed their life and two lac women who being tortured and lost their innocence in the great liberation war of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Post has issued a commemorative stamp of Tk. 10 (ten), a first day cover of tk. 10 (ten), a data card of Tk. 5 (five) and a special canceller on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of Independence of Bangladesh.

Designer : Mr. Sumanto Kumar

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

No. of Stamp : 01 (One) Piece

Colour : Multicolour

Denomination of Stamp : Tk. 10/- (Ten)

Size of Stamp : 32 mm x 48 mm

Perforation of Stamps : 12.5

Qnt of Stamps : 1,00,000 (One Lac) pcs

Process of Printing : Offset

Printer : The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd., Gazipur-1703

About :

26 March 2021 is the Glorious Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh. The significance and importance of the Great Independence and National Day is immeasurable and unbounded in the National History of Bangladesh. The Glorious Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh is obviously a landmark and milestone of the people of Bangladesh.
The Great Dreamer of the golden Bengal Bangabandhu dreamed an independent and sovereign state for the Bengali people of the East Pakistan and spread this magical web of dreams through his visionary six-point demand which created in the heart and mind of the Bengalis of East Pakistan a dream of emancipation and independence from the exploitation and robbing of rights of West Pakistan and for an independent motherland. At this moment Bangabandhu on December 5 in 1969, made a declaration naming the then East Pakistan as Bangladesh which ignited the political aspirations of the Bengali people of the East Pakistan as a nation. In the run-up to the general elections of December 1970, Bangabandhu and his political organization, the Awami League consistently referred to Bangladesh in their political pronouncements which grew the nationalist sentiment among the Bengalis in highest order. Thus in the first ever general elections of Pakistan in December 1970 under the magical, charismatic and great phenomenal leadership of Bangabandhu Awami League won an epic victory.
The Awami League won 167 seats out of 169 seats of East Pakistan in the Pakistan National Assembly. Under the circumstances General Yahya’s military junta and Z.A. Bhutto, conspired not to allow Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to form the government in the centre. On 1 March 1971, President Yahya Khan postponed unilaterally the Dhaka National Assembly scheduled to be held on 3 March. This announcement triggered off the general agitation in East Pakistan. In response, on 7^th March 1971 Bangabandhu made a historic speech at the Ramna Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka to a gathering of over a million of people which marked a turning point in the history of the Bengali (Bangalee) Nation. In this historic speech of 7^th March, Bangabandhu proclaimed: “The struggle, this time is for freedom, the struggle this time is for independence”. He announced a civil non-cooperation movement in the East Pakistan, calling for “every house to turn into a fortress.” The speech was effectively the direction of the Independence of Bangladesh.
The Pakistan Army in the dark night of 25 March launched “Operation Searchlight” against Bengali civilians, intelligentsia, students, politicians, armed personnel and started the worst, hellish and devised Genocide of the 20^th century. The Undisputed leader of the Bengali (Bangalee) nation, the Greatest Bengalee of all time, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the Independence of Bangladesh through the wireless of the then EPR at the early hours of March 26, 1971. In that proclamation Bangabandhu told that, “This may be my last message, from today Bangladesh is independent. I call upon the people of Bangladesh wherever you might be and with whatever you have, to resist the army of occupation to the last. Your fight must go on until the last soldier of the Pakistan occupation army is expelled from the soil of Bangladesh and final victory is achieved”.
The all-out War of Liberation of Bangladesh started after the Proclamation of the Independence of Bangabandhu. The freedom loving indomitable vigorous and brave sons of Bangladesh snatched the crimson sun of independence from the autocratic Junta of West Pakistan in exchange of a sea of blood. The Pakistani occupation and invading Army and their local collaborators; The Rajakars, Al-Badars, AL-Shams forces were defeated to the heroism of Bengali Nation and their patriotism. In the glorious Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 in Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators carried out the worst, hellish and devised Genocide of the 20^th century where three million heroic sons sacrificed their lives and 200 thousand women lost their innocence being victims of assault and torture. After a 9 month-long bloody war under the indomitable, undaunted, vigorous and brave leadership of Bangabandhu, Bangladesh earned the ultimate Victory on the 16^th December, 1971 and a Sovereign and Independent state – Bangladesh manifested in the world map.
The Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh left behind an eternal legacy of 03 [01. The Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh observed in the ‘Mujib Borsho’ or ‘Mujib Year’ (Yearlong celebration to mark the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, officially termed as “Mujib Borsho”. The government has already declared Mujib Borsho from March 17, 2020 to December 16, 2021.) 02. The Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh observed in the regime of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina whose able and pragmatic leadership and statesmanship received Bangladesh’s final recommendation from United Nation for graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status on the eve of The Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh. 03. The Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence and National Day’ is the first ‘Great Independence and National Day’ after Bangladesh has received the final recommendation from United Nations for graduating from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status.] unprecedented, unique, glorious and magnificent events whose amalgamation and union may never happen on this earth as they perhaps ever met once at this juncture of the Golden Jubilee of the Great Independence of Bangladesh.
Narrator:
Shafiee Billah Jabber
Son of Martyred Intellectual Abdul Jabbar of Bangladesh Liberation War and
Author of the Trust: Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial Trust, Bangladesh.
Editor and Publisher: The Daily Asian Express and Fortnightly City of Joy.