Congress plans to celebrate golden jubilee of Bangladesh War
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The Congress is planning to organise district-level programmes to kick off the golden jubilee celebrations of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh from mid July, a supply stated on Sunday.
The occasion had deliberate grassroot degree meets throughout 650 districts from May 1 to celebrate an event thought-about to be one of best moments of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Politically, it’s meant to be efficient counter to BJP’s aggressive nationalism plank by reminding the brand new era that Ms. Gandhi was the one who managed to break up Pakistan.
The occasion’s plan acquired derailed as a result of of the spike within the quantity of COVID-19 case within the second wave.
The supply stated former Defence Minister A.K.s Antony, who heads the occasion committee on organising the celebrations, has reviewed plans with convenor of the group, Captain (Retd.) Praveen ,Davar on restarting the programmes if the scenario improves by mid July.
Invitation playing cards with the enduring picture of then Pakistani commander, Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi signing the give up doc earlier than Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora and of Ms. Gandhi congratulating the chiefs of armed forces together with Sam Maneckshaw, have been despatched out.
Last December, occasion president Sonia Gandhi had arrange a committee that included senior members like Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, former Speaker Meira Kumar and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan amongst others.
Though Ms. Gandhi was invited by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to participate within the March 26 celebrations in Dhaka to commemorate independence and delivery centenary celebrations of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she skipped it as a result of of the pandemic.
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