The ruling Awami League will celebrate its 65th founding anniversary today. To mark the day, the party and its associate bodies have taken up programmes.
The national and party flags will be hoisted atop the Awami League offices across the country from sunrise today. The party leaders and activists would also pay tribute to the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhanmondi road 32.
The party will also bring out a mass procession on foot of Shikha Chirantan (Eternal Flame) at the Suhrawardy Udyan at 3:30pm to Dhanmondi 32.
A discussion will be held on June 28 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital with party President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Now Bangladesh Awami League, the party emerged as the Awami Muslim League on June 23, 1949 in the then East Pakistan.
Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and Shamsul Huq were unanimously elected as president and general secretary of the party while Sheikh Mujib a joint secretary. The word “Muslim” was later rescinded from the party nomenclature.