For Quamrul Hasan, making and shaping of the flag needed several months to complete.
Unique features of the first flag of Independent
Bangladesh was absence of the crescent and star (as in the Pakistan´s flag) , symbol of the Islamic states.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Bangalees dreamed for the secular Bangladesh.
The red circular disc with map of Bangladesh symbolizes blood of thousands of Bangalis killed by the
Pakistanis since 1947 in the Golden Bangla. The green backdrop is, nevertheless to say, symbolizes the vitality, youthfulness, greenery and of course symbolizes also
our land as the agrarian since the pre- Vedic age.
Many western writers have written in their books while interpreting on the green backdrop of the Bangladesh flag as colour of Islam which is essentially a wrong information.
Please note the Lonely Planet's Bangladesh 1996 edition. Here the author wrongly writes "First flown officially from the rebel Bangladesh embassy in Calcutta when the War of Liberation began". Writing partially correct
"The Bangladesh flag is green for the lush country, not for Islam, as some fundamentalists would prefer".
The CIA world factbook 1997 has also made the same mistake!
The present flag , quite different from the first one,is bottle green in the background, voided of golden- coloured map of Bangladesh, rectangular in size in the proportion of length to width 10:6. The red circle has a radius of one-fifth of the length of the flag. Red circle´s centre is placed on the intersecting point of the perpendicular drawn from the nine-twentieth part of the length and the horizontal line drawn through the middle of its width.
The flag of Bangladesh was first hoisted in the UN September 1974. China used her veto against admission of Bangladesh in the UN 1972 and repeated in the year 1973. The Bangladesh flag appeared later in the UNs´ stamp series "Flag of the member state".
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