Staff Reporter
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday observed the 73rd birth anniversary of party founder Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman with due solemnity and honour across the country.
Party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia along with central leaders, activists and supporters of BNP visited the grave of late president Zia at 10:30 AM on Monday.
They laid wreaths and prayed for the salvation of the late president.
Earlier, to observe the day, BNP and its front organisations had chalked out different programmes that ended yesterday.
After offering munajat at the mausoleum of president Zia, BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain told the journalists that Ziaur Rahman was ‘the pioneer of democracy’ who had taken some steps for upholding the country’s positive images.
It may be mentioned that the founder of BNP and former president Ziaur Rahman was born in 1936 at Bagbari village under Gabtoli Upazila in Bogra.
The sector commander of the liberation war became army chief in 1975, and went on to become president. Zia founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1978.
Meanwhile, BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday gave separate messages on the occasion of ‘Shaheed Asad Day’.
They paid their tributes to Shaheed Asad who had embraced martyrdom during mass upsurge in 1969. They called upon all to be imbibed with the ideology of Asad for establishing the rights of the deprived class.
Courtesy: nation.ittefaq.com
