Bangladesh
Mujib Year Government extends Mujib Borsho celebration till December 16, 2021
Dhaka, December 16: The government has extended the Mujib Borsho or Mujib Year, which marks the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, till December 16, 2021.
The government announced the decision on Monday.
“The program undertaken to observe Mujib Borsho could not be executed properly and timely due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. So, the government is declaring Mujib Borsho’s duration from March 17, 2020 to December 16, 2021,” the gazette read as quoted by Dhaka Tribune.
Earlier, the Bangladesh government announced several programmes to mark the ocassion starting from March 17 to March 26 next year.
The countdown for the celebration’s opening had started on January 10, coinciding with Bangabandhu’s homecoming in 1972 from a Pakistani jail after the 1971 Liberation War, reported Dhaka Tribune.
