Today is the 74th founding anniversary of the ruling Awami League, the party which led the country's independence through the 1971 Great Liberation War. The party was founded on June 23 in 1949.
At first the Awami Muslim League was established at the Rose Garden in Dhaka on the day. Later the party appeared as Bangladesh Awami League (AL) to give it a secular look.
Meanwhile, the ruling AL has taken elaborate programmes, marking its founding anniversary.
The programmes include: hoisting of national and party flags at central and countrywide party offices at the dawn, paying tribute at Bangabandhu's portrait in front of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the capital at 7am, holding of a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) at 3.30pm today.
AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair and address the discussion meeting.
As part of the days' programmes, a delegation of the AL Central Executive Committee will also pay homage at the grave of Bangabandhu, the greatest Bangalee of all time, by placing wreaths there at Tungipara at 10.30am.
AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday evening gave a message marking the party's founding anniversary recalling its contribution to the birth of Bangladesh and all democratic movements.
In her message, the premier said, “Since its inception, every achievement in the soil of this land has been under the leadership of Awami League.”
The AL was behind the root of all the achievements of Bangalees till today, including the country's overall development from the protection of the dignity of mother tongue and subsequently the War of Liberation in 1971.”
The Awami League is one of the oldest, non-communal, largest and leading political parties in the country. And the work of building a non-communal Bangladesh was first started by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
At the time of its establishment, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was in jail. But he was made joint general secretary then.
The Bangladesh Awami League has chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate its 74th founding anniversary.
The anniversary programme will begin with hoisting the national and party flags atop at all party offices, including the Bangabandhu Avenue central office, with the sunrise tomorrow.
Later, glowing tributes will be paid to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait on the premises of Bangabandhu Bhaban in Dhanmondi at 7 am.
A delegation of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will place wreaths at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu at Tungipara in Gopalganj at 10:30 am.
A discussion will be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Agargaon at 3.30 pm on the day. Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair and address the discussion.
Awami League General Secretary who is also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today called upon the party units at different tiers across the country and its associate and like-minded political bodies to celebrate the party's founding anniversary through different programmes keeping similarity with the central programmes.
