Staff Reporter:
The BNP on Friday paid homage to the 1952 Language Movement martyrs marking Amar Ekushey, the Language Martyrs Day, and the International Mother Language Day.
The party central leaders, led by its Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, went to the Central Shaheed Minar in the morning and placed a wreath at its altar.
The leaders and activists of the party gathered in front of Balaka Cinema Hall at Nilkhet at 6:30am wearing black badges. Later, they first offered fateha at the graves of Language Movement martyrs at Azimpur Graveyard.
Later, they went to the Central Shaheed Minar to pay tributes to the martyrs.
BNP chairperson’s advisory council members Aman Ullah Aman, Abdus Salam, joint secretaries general Khairul Kabir Khokon, Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel, central leaders Nazimuddin Alam, Dhaka North City unit president Aminul Haq, Jubo Dal president Abdul Monayem Munna and general secretary Nurul Islam Nayan were, among others, present there.
BNP also kept their party and national flags at half-mast and hoisted black flags at its Nayapaltan central office at 6 am in observance of the day.
Besides, BNP’s different units across the country also observed the day with due respect amid various programmes.
Earlier on Thursday, the party arranged a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, marking the day.
Ekushey February is observed simultaneously as Shaheed Dibas and International Mother Language Day in recognition of the Bengali nation’s supreme sacrifice to the cause of their mother tongue. In 1999, UNESCO declared the 21st of February as the International Mother Language Day.
