Bangladesh Awami League (AL), one of the country's oldest political parties, has drawn up an elaborate programme to celebrate its 74th founding anniversary on Friday, reports BSS.
The anniversary programme will begin with hoisting the national and party flags atop at all party offices, including the Bangabandhu Avenue central office, with the sunrise of Friday.
Later, glowing tributes will be paid to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait on the premises of Bangabandhu Bhaban in Dhanmondi at 7 am.
A delegation of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will place wreaths at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu at Tungipara in Gopalganj at 10:30 am.
A discussion will be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Agargaon at 3.30 pm on the day. Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair and address the discussion.
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today called upon the party units at different tiers across the country and its associate and like-minded bodies to celebrate the party's founding anniversary through different programmes keeping similarity with the central programmes.
Founded on June 23 in 1949, Awami League has been transformed into an organisation of the masses by leading all the democratic-political-social-cultural movements, including the long arduous struggle for freedom and the War of Liberation.
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