On this day in 1971, valiant freedom fighters hoisted the flag of independent Bangladesh in Panchagarh town by defeating the Pakistan occupation forces, reports BSS.
To mark the day, district unit of Muktujoddha Sangsad, different political parties and social organisations have taken up a number of programmes.
On 20 November 1971, the freedom fighters intensified attack on the Pakistani occupation army from three corners of the town.
Gradually they took control of the camps of Pakistani occupation forces — Amarkhana on 20 November, Jagdalhat on 25 November, Shingpara village on 26 November, Talma village on 27 Novemver and Panchagarh CO Office, Atwary, Mirzapur on 28 November. In the face of joint attack by the freedom fighters and allied forces the previous night, finally the Pakistani occupation forces retreated from the distrit town on November 28 night and took shelter at Saidpur Cantonment. Freedom fighters entered the town in the morning on November 29.
Former upazila chairman of Boda upazila Ashraful Islam, 75, said as the news spread, people from the adjacent villages rushed to the town and rejoiced liberation of their motherland by chanting slogans ‘Joy Bangla’ with the freedom fighters. Shortly after the Pakistani occupation forces started crackdown in capital Dhaka on March 26 in 1971, freedom-loving people of Panchagarh brought out protest processions.