Nat’l Solidarity Day to be observed with due dignity 

The government has drawn up an extensive nationwide programme to observe National Revolution and Solidarity Day on November 7, 2026, with due solemnity and dignity.

The programmes were approved at a high-level review meeting held on October 28 at the conference room of the Ministry of Home Affairs, chaired by Senior Secretary Manjur Morshed Chowdhury.

As part of the observance, the President and the Prime Minister will issue separate messages to the nation, while November 7 will be  observed as a public holiday. The national flag will be hoisted on government and private buildings across the country and at Bangladesh missions abroad.

Major roads and traffic islands will also be decorated with national flags through joint initiatives of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, the Local Government Division, city corporations and municipalities.

Special prayers, milad-mahfils and monajats will be organised at mosques, temples, churches, pagodas and other places of worship, seeking peace, prosperity and national progress.

Special meals will be served to inmates and residents of hospitals, prisons, orphanages, childcare centres, children's homes, juvenile correction facilities, old-age homes and institutions for the destitute.

Public children's parks under city corporations and municipalities will remain open throughout the day without admission fees.

Art competitions for children will be organised at district and upazila levels with support from the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and local administrations. Educational institutions will also arrange special discussions and essay competitions highlighting the significance of the day.

Bangladesh Television, private television channels and radio stations will broadcast special programmes, while documentary films will be screened at cinema halls and through mobile projection units.

The Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy will organise patriotic song sessions, discussion meetings at district and upazila levels and exhibition football matches at district and upazila headquarters.

A special commemorative discussion will also bring together families of martyred freedom fighters, wounded freedom fighters and other veterans of the Liberation War.

The Armed Forces will organise national flag-hoisting ceremonies, milad-mahfils, feasts and special darb ars. A grand display will also be staged at the Army Stadium in Dhaka under the supervision of the Bangladesh Cadet Corps.

Similar programmes, including milad-mahfils and feasts will be organised at the headquarters of agencies under the Ministry of Home Affairs. These include the Bangladesh Police, Border Guard Bangladesh, Ansar and Village Defence Party, Department of Immigration and Passports, Bangladesh Coast Guard, Department of Narcotics Control, Department of Prisons, Fire Service and Civil Defence, National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre and the International Crimes Tribunal.