BNP's Founding Anniversary
Huge procession brought out in Ctg
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia flanked by party leaders lays a wreath at the grave of late president also founder of the organisation, Ziaur Rahman, on the party's 34th founding anniversary yesterday. Photo: STAR
The Chittagong city unit BNP and its associate bodies brought out a huge procession in the port city marking the party's 34th founding anniversary yesterday. Participants in the procession paraded the main thoroughfares from Kazir Dewry area through New Market, Station Road and Kadamtoli intersections to Agrabad. Chittagong city unit BNP President Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury led the procession. It started from the party's office at Nasiman Bhaban of Kazir Dewry area around 11:00am. The march caused unbearable sufferings to people through creating huge traffic congestion at busy points, including Jubilee Road and New Market, Kadamtoli, Chowmuhony and Agrabad intersections. Vehicular movement on these roads almost remained stopped for nearly two hours. Leaders, activists and supporters of BNP and its front organisations including Jubo Dal, Sramik Dal, Swechchha Shebak Dal, Mahila Dal and other pro-BNP organisations and professional bodies participated in the programme. They paraded the streets on foot and riding horses, bicycles, motorbikes, pickup vans, and trucks with banners, festoons, placards and portraits of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman. The late president Zia founded the party on September 1, 1978. Members of Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Jote joined the procession and played party and patriotic songs in loudspeakers while singer Asif Akbar also performed. The procession was preceded by a rally held at the party's city unit office premises. Khasru told the rally that they were observing peaceful programmes protesting corruption of the government, avoiding the politics of conflict. Terming the procession as the biggest ever showdown in Chittagong city after the January 9 grand rally, Khasru said people were supporting their peaceful programmes by flocking in thousands as a part to force the government into holding the next general election under a caretaker government. Through the massive showdown, the agitation programme to topple the government has been inaugurated from the port city and it will result in bringing down the government following a mass movement, he said. Khasru, also adviser to the BNP chairperson, asked the government to hold the parliamentary election under a caretaker government and reinstate the caretaker government provisions in the constitution soon. BNP leaders urged the people and the party men to get prepared for the upcoming tougher agitation programmes to dislodge the government. BNP Vice Chairmen Abdullah Al Noman and M Morshed Khan, ex-whip Syed Wahidul Alam, lawmaker and Chittagong south district unit President Jafrul Islam Chowdhury, Chittagong city Mayor M Manjur Alam, Chittagong city unit Vice President Abu Sufian and city unit General Secretary Dr Shahadat Hossain were present among others on the occasion.
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