Declare March 7 as historic national day: HC

The High Court today directed the government to declare March 7 as a historic national day and publish a gazette notification to this effect within a month. On March 7 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, through his fiery and soulful address at the then Race-Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) made a clarion call to the people to fight against