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PM releases commemorative stamp marking March 7

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday released a commemorative postage stamp, a first-day cover and souvenir sheet, marking the historic March 7.

She released them from her official residence Ganobhaban in the afternoon, reports UNB.

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar was present on the occasion, among others.

The stamps, first-day covers and souvenir sheet would be sold from Philatelic Bureau of Dhaka GPO from Monday and would be available at other GPOs and head post offices across the country later.

On this day in 1971, Bangabandhu through his fiery and soulful address made a clarion call to the people to fight against the Pakistani occupation forces to achieve the long-cherished independence.

Before a rally of a million of freedom-loving people at the then Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardhy Udyan) on March 7, 1971, Bangabandhu in a virtual announcement of independence declared, "The struggle this time is for our freedom, the struggle this time is for our independence".

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