Bangladesh attempts world record with largest flag-parajumping display on 54th Victory Day
Fifty-four paratroopers began a skydiving display while holding the national flag.
Bangladesh held the largest ever flag-parachuting display in the world to celebrate Victory Day today (16 December).
As part of the celebration marking 54 years of independence, 54 paratroopers began a skydiving display while holding the national flag around 12pm.
The event is being organised jointly by the Bangladesh Army, Air Force and Navy.
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The programme was inaugurated by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus at the old airport in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.
The event began with a flypast salute by three aircraft of the Army Aviation Group, followed by aerial salutes from the Bangladesh Air Force and Navy.
Similar fly-past demonstrations will also be conducted by the armed forces in other cities across the country. Alongside them, the police, BGB, and Ansar will organize band shows nationwide. All of the events will be open to the public.
Besides, like the previous years, the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs will organise three-day Victory Fairs in all districts and upazilas across the country.
District and upazila administrations will arrange recitation, essay writing and painting competitions on the Liberation War for children and organise cultural events to celebrate the day.
On 16 December, the ministry will arrange Victory Day songs at the Suhrawardy Udyan from 3pm. Simultaneously, young artists across all 64 districts will sing songs of the historic Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra.
Cinema halls across the country will screen Liberation War films free of charge for students while documentaries based on Liberation War will be screened at auditoriums and open places across the country.
The government and autonomous museums are open to the public all day without entry fees, while all entertainment venues across the country will offer free entry for children.
Special prayers are being held at mosques, temples, churches, pagodas, and other places of worship seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of martyred freedom fighters and the well-being of wounded veterans.
Improved diets will be served in all hospitals, prisons, old-age homes, orphanages, street-children rehabilitation centres, disability welfare centres, daycare centres, child development centres and Shishu Paribar and under-privileged children across the country.
