BNP’s founding anniversary today

Staff Reporter :
BNP will celebrate its 45th founding anniversary today ( Friday) with due respect across the country.

Late President Ziaur Rahman founded the party on September 1, 1978 with a 19-point programme to build a self-reliant nation.

The BNP and its associate bodies have taken up various programmes, including rallies and discussions, to celebrate its founding anniversary.

According to the programmes, the party flag will be hoisted atop its Nayapaltan central office and all other offices of BNP across the country at 6am on Friday.

Apart from these, BNP senior leaders will place wreaths and offer fateha at the grave of its founder Ziaur Rahman at 10:30am on Friday.

Later, the leaders and activists of the party will take out a colourful rally from in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office at 3pm, marking the day. The rally will end near Rajdhani Super Market after parading through different roads.

The party arranged a discussion on Thursday at Mohanagar Natya Mancha auditorium in the capital.

BNP’s associate bodies and all their units across the country will mark the day with due respect by holding various programs, including discussions and rallies.

BNP had been in power four times and on the opposition bench twice in its 44 years journey. BNP has been out of power for nearly 16 years since the 1/11 political changeover.

The party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in separate messages congratulated the people of the country, party leaders, workers and activists and well-wishers on the occasion of its anniversary.