Staff Reporter:
Central and different front leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday paid rich trib-ute to Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttom, at his mausoleum in the city marking his 89th birth anniversary.
To mark the day, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with other party lead-ers paid homage through placing floral wreaths at the mausoleum of Shahid President Ziaur Rah-man, a Sector Commander of War of Liberation, at 11.30am.
Later, they offered fateha and munajat seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of former presi-dent Zia also who proclaimed our Independence.
Besides, they also offered doa seeking recovery of former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia now undergoing treatment in the United Kingdom(UK).
Huge number of BNP front leaders, activists, supporters and standing committee members includ-ing Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, BNP Vice president Advocate Azam Khan, BNP Chairperson’s advis-er Jainul Abedin Faruque, Aman Ullah Aman, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokon, Advocate Abdus Salam Azad, BNP leader Rafiqul Alam Majnu, Aminul Huq, SM Jahangir, Saiful Alam Nirob and Sultan Salauddin Tuku also attended the programme.
Later, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also talked with media at the Mausole-um premises.
Ziaur Rahman was born in January 19 in 1936 at Gabtoli in Bogura. His nick name was Kamal.
He declared independence from Kalurghat Beter Kendra (Radio Station) in Chattogram in 1971. Ziaur Rahman again came in frontline through the Sipoy-Janata Biplob (Soldiers and People’s Rev-olution) on November 7 in 1975.
Zia became a statesman after lot of political changes. He had established Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP on September 1 in 1978.
The party has taken a daylong programme to mark the birth anniversary of the former president.
