Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar has released postage stamps on the occasion of the golden jubilee of ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ in 1971.
The Postal Department has also issued commemorative stamps, opening envelopes and data cards on the occasion of the day.
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar released a commemorative stamp worth Tk 10 and an opening envelope worth Tk 10 from his office in Dhaka on Sunday.
A data card worth Taka 5 was also launched. The Minister used a seal in this regard. He made a statement in this regard.
Commemorative stamps, opening envelopes and data cards can be collected from Thursday at the Philatelic Bureau of Dhaka GPO and later from other GPOs and major post offices in the country.
In the statement, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications said that the main theme of the Concert for Bangladesh was the call to the people of the world to stand by the people of Bangladesh.
He said that there was a plea in the lyrics of the song that
“Now won’t you give some bread to get the starving fed?
We’ve got to relieve Bangladesh
Relieve the people of Bangladesh
We’ve got to relieve Bangladesh
Relieve the people of Bangladesh”
Heroic freedom fighter Mustafa Jabbar said, ‘The big attraction of’ The Concert for Bangladesh ‘was George Harrison and Bob Dylan. George Harrison sang eight songs. Bob Dylan sang five songs. Ringo Star and Billy Preston sang one song each. Leon Russell did a solo and a song with Don Preston.
At the end of the program, George Harrison sang his unforgettable song ‘Bangladesh, Bangladesh’. The song is written and composed by George Harrison himself. The main theme of the song was a call to the people of the world to stand by the people of Bangladesh, the minister said.
He said that George Harrison sang the whole song in a loud voice with a deeply human and revolutionary appeal. The audience was mesmerized and moved to tears. On the same day, the state called Bangladesh became known as an independent country before independence. Millions of people around the world heard the name of Bangladesh for the first time and knew about the ongoing liberation war, the brutal massacre and the destruction by the Pakistani aggressors.
Citing George Harrison’s writings in the book ‘I Am Mine’, the minister said, “The point is, we were able to draw attention for the cause of Bangladesh. “While we were preparing for the concert, the Americans were sending weapons to Pakistan. Thousands die every day, but just a few lines in the newspaper, “Oh, yes, it’s still going on. “We were able to attract a lot of attention. I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, “Oh, Mr. Harrison, when we were fighting in the woods, someone outside was thinking of us. It was a lot for us to know that.” Mustafa Jabbar said that the Concert for Bangladesh is a glorious and unforgettable historical event in the history of the great liberation war.
August 1 marks the golden jubilee of George Harrison’s historic ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ to raise funds for Bangladesh during the War of Liberation. On this day in 1971, such a big event was held for the first time in the world to help the refugees of Bangladesh, especially in support of the liberation war. Thanks to the efforts of Pandit Ravi Shankar at Madison Square Garden in New York, the event is unforgettable in the history of the Liberation War.
