The main opposition BNP will celebrate its 35th founding anniversary today. BNP, its associated bodies and front organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the occasion.
The programmes include discussion and blood donation. Party and national flags will be hoisted atop all the offices of BNP across the country in the early hours on Sunday.
BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia along with the party leaders and activists will place wreaths and offer the fateha prayer at the graveyard of its founder Ziaur Rahman at 10:00am.
The then president Ziaur Rahman, who came to power through a military coup d’état in November 1975, founded the party on September 1, 1978. After Zia’s assassination on May 30, 1981, his widow Khaleda Zia took the charge of the party.
Former president Zia through founding BNP introduced the ideology of ‘Bangladeshi Nationalism’ with the slogans of ‘politics of development and production’.
BNP has ruled the country for several terms while the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia became the country’s first woman prime minister after winning the 1991 general election.
In a message BNP chairperson and the acting secretary general greeted the countrymen, party leaders and activists and well-wishers on the occasion of the founding anniversary.
“Our main aim is to restore the caretaker government system in the constitution which the government cancelled by force,” Khaleda said.