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Supporters of the Bangladesh Awami League carry the party flag during a mass rally in Dhaka yesterday, ahead of a planned Bangladesh Nationalist Party rally on March 12. March 7 also marks the day in 1971 when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is fondly known as Bangabandhu (friend of Bengal) and was Bangladesh’s first president, delivered a speech at Dhaka’s Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) prior to leading the country to independence from Pakistan after a bloody nine-month war in 1971