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BNP announces 7-day programme marking Ziaur Rahman’s 45th death anniversary
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday announced a seven-day programme from May 25 to June 1 marking the 45th death anniversary of the party’s founder and former president Ziaur Rahman.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a press briefing after a joint meeting organised by the party at its Nayapaltan central office in the capital .
Rizvi, who presided over the meeting, said the programmes were taken to observe the martyrdom anniversary of the party founder.
BNP Joint Secretary General Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel was also present at the briefing.
He said various associate bodies and affiliated organisations of the party would organise discussion meetings and publish posters marking the occasion.
A discussion meeting organised by BNP will be held at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on May 31, he added.
Rizvi said that, as in previous years, party flags will be kept at half-mast and black flags hoisted at the BNP central office at Nayapaltan and party offices across the country at 6am on May 30.
At 11am on the same day, BNP Secretary General and senior leaders along with leaders of associate bodies will place wreaths at the grave of Ziaur Rahman and offer prayers there.
He also said Prime Minister and BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman is expected to be present during the programme.
The BNP senior joint secretary general said clothes, rice and other food items would be distributed among underprivileged people in every thana under Dhaka North and South city units of the party.
Besides, discussion meetings, doa mahfils and distribution of clothes and food items among the poor will be organised across the country by BNP’s district and metropolitan units, he added.
Different associate and affiliated bodies of BNP will also observe separate programmes marking the day.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal will arrange milad and doa programmes at educational institutions on the occasion. Krishak Dal, Olama Dal and other associate organisations will also organise different programmes marking the day.
Earlier, joint secretaries general of the party and leaders of Dhaka North and South city units, along with leaders of BNP’s associate and affiliated organisations, attended the joint meeting.
Ziaur Rahman, who founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in 1978, was assassinated by a group of army officers at Chittagong Circuit House on May 30, 1981, reports UNB.