Staff Reporter:
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman signed the visitors’ book kept at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar, sitting inside the bus.
He signed the visitors’ book at 10:37pm on Friday (26 December).
The red and green bulletproof bus carrying Tarique, and accompanying vehicles entered the historic facility around 10:00pm.
Afterwards, he paid tribute to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War at the National Memorial in Savar.
A huge number of BNP leaders and activists took position inside and around the Memorial to accompany their leader, who returned to the country on Thursday ending his 17-year exile in London.
Police, detectives, RAB and BGB were deployed to ensure security for Tarique Rahman at the National Memorial and along the Dhaka-Aricha Highway.
Around 5:06pm, a group of BNP senior leaders laid floral wreaths at the altar of the Memorial on Tarique’s behalf as he was set to miss the tradition of laying the wreath before sunset.
Earlier, Tarique’s vehicle convoy left for the Memorial around 5pm, after the BNP leader paid tributes at the grave of his father, former president Ziaur Rahman.
Tarique also prayed for eternal peace for Zia at the mausoleum located in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.
