The greatest Bengali of all time, the Father of the Nation,
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, called for our
independence in his historic 7th March Speech in 1971. In front of
a sea of people in Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy
Udyan), Dhaka, he declared in a blazing voice: `The struggle this
time is the struggle for our emancipation; the struggle this time is
the struggle for independence; Joi Bangla!