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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened the Eighth Bangladesh Games at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka on Saturday evening.
She inaugurated the Games by signing a digital board which the audience saw on a giant screen.
This was followed by a parade of the Games’ mascot ‘Tarunno’, after which former hockey player Jumman Lusai lit the torch.
Former athlete Shamima Satter Mimu, former swimmer Wing Commander Rafiqul Islam, shooter Sabrina Sultana and former footballer Sheikh Mohammad Aslam jogged round the stadium with the torch and handed it over to Jumman Lusai.
The cultural part of the opening ceremony begun after the torch was lit. Six hundred performers put together a moving display of rural Bangladesh to the song written by Shankar Sawjal.
Another display centered round a trip down memory lane -- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's call for freedom, Swadhin Bangla Football Team joining the Liberation War and much else.
Singers Subir Nandi, Shakila Jafar, Fahmida Nabi, Bappa Majumder, Partho Barua and Kona also sang the theme song of the Games .
After that, the opening ceremony ended with spectacular fireworks.
Earlier before the inauguration, Games’ Organising Committee Co-Chairman and State Minister of Youth and Sports Ahad Ali Sarkar and Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) President and Bangladesh Army chief General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan spoke to the audience.
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra’s performer and prominent singer Rezwana Chowdhury Bonna led a group of singers to begin the ceremony with the national anthem.
Then began the march past which was joined by hundreds of participants.
Bangladesh’s fastest athletes Mohan Khan and Nazmun Nahar Beauty administered oath to 6,855 athletes.
Earlier, a video was screened highlighting Bangladesh's progress in sports over the previous decades.
The bands of the Bangladesh Army, Navy, Air Force and Police put up a scintillating display.
This was followed by a parade of the Games’ mascot ‘Tarunno’, after which former hockey player Jumman Lusai lit the torch.
Former athlete Shamima Satter Mimu, former swimmer Wing Commander Rafiqul Islam, shooter Sabrina Sultana and former footballer Sheikh Mohammad Aslam jogged round the stadium with the torch and handed it over to Jumman Lusai.
The cultural part of the opening ceremony begun after the torch was lit. Six hundred performers put together a moving display of rural Bangladesh to the song written by Shankar Sawjal.
Another display centered round a trip down memory lane -- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's call for freedom, Swadhin Bangla Football Team joining the Liberation War and much else.
Singers Subir Nandi, Shakila Jafar, Fahmida Nabi, Bappa Majumder, Partho Barua and Kona also sang the theme song of the Games .
After that, the opening ceremony ended with spectacular fireworks.
Earlier before the inauguration, Games’ Organising Committee Co-Chairman and State Minister of Youth and Sports Ahad Ali Sarkar and Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) President and Bangladesh Army chief General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan spoke to the audience.
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra’s performer and prominent singer Rezwana Chowdhury Bonna led a group of singers to begin the ceremony with the national anthem.
Then began the march past which was joined by hundreds of participants.
Bangladesh’s fastest athletes Mohan Khan and Nazmun Nahar Beauty administered oath to 6,855 athletes.
Earlier, a video was screened highlighting Bangladesh's progress in sports over the previous decades.
The bands of the Bangladesh Army, Navy, Air Force and Police put up a scintillating display.
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