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Report citing the date (16 May 1976), route (Rajshahi toward Farakka), and Bhashani's leadership of the long march.

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1976

Farakka Long March

On 16 May 1976, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani led a mass long march from Rajshahi toward the Farakka frontier to protest upstream diversion of Ganges water and to demand Bangladesh's fair river-water rights. The march linked ecological anxiety in the Padma basin with post-independence mass politics.