BNP to continue movement
UNB
Dhaka: BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed on Friday said their movement will continue until democracy is resorted in Bangladesh.
“The country is passing through a deep democratic crisis. We’ll continue our movement under Khaleda Zia’s leadership until the democracy established by Ziaur Rahman is restored in the country,” he told reporters after a joint meeting of the party.
The meeting was held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office to assess the preparations for observing the 34th death anniversary of party founder former president Ziaur Rahman.
Moudud said Ziaur Rahman was assassinated due to local and international conspiracies. “The conspirators carried out the brutal incident when he (Zia) was at the best of his popularity.”
He said Zia will be ever remembered for proclaiming the country’s Liberation War and reaching the helm of power through the civil-military upsurge on November 7, 1975.
Earlier, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan informed reporters about the 15-day programme chalked out by BNP and its associate bodies to mark Zia’s death anniversary.
The observance of Zia’s death anniversary will begin on May 27 and end on June 10.
The programmes include holding discussions, wearing black badges, publishing posters and supplements in newspapers and distributing food among the destitute.
Ziaur Rahman who founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in 1978 was assassinated by a group of army officers at Chittagong Circuit House on May 30, 1981.