Dhaka University and the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD are scheduled to celebrate Flag Hoisting Day today, marking the first hoisting of Bangladesh鈥檚 national flag before independence on the Dhaka University campus in 1971.
This year, Dhaka University will celebrate the day at Battala on the campus in the morning at 10:00am.
JSD president ASM Abdur Rob, who hoisted the flag first in 1971, was invited to participate in the programme.
During fascist rule in last 16 years the DU authorities did not invite ASM Abdur Rob to the programme.
This year after the fall of fascist Awami League rule on August 5, the DU authorities have invited ASM Abdur Rob.
The JSD in a press release called on the party leaders and activists to participate in the programme at Battala in front of the Arts Faculty of DU at 10:00am.
Earlier, JSD organised a discussion at the National Press Club auditorium on February 27 to mark the day.
On March 2, 1971, then Dhaka University Central Students Union vice-president ASM Abdur Rob, on behalf of the Swadhin Bangla Chhatra Sangram Parishad, first hoisted the national flag, designed with a golden map of Bangladesh inside a red circle set against a green background, atop the university Arts Building amid tumultuous cheers from the spirited students in a massive gathering.
In the nine-month War of Independence, the flag served as the symbol of the state of Bangladesh and was used by the provisional government of Bangladesh to buttress its political, diplomatic and military struggle to free the country from the marauding Pakistani military.
After independence, the national flag, with a modified version of the original design in which the map was removed, was officially adopted on January 17, 1972.
