BNP is set to celebrate its 46th founding anniversary across the country today. The party has shortened its previously announced elaborate programmes due to the severe flooding in the country's southeastern region.
On September 1, 1978, late President Ziaur Rahman founded BNP with a 19-point programme to build self-reliant Bangladesh.
Under the revised programme, the BNP will observe the day with traditional activities, including hoisting the party flag at the Naya Paltan central office and all BNP offices across the country.
The observance will also feature offering Fateha and placing wreaths at the grave of the party's founder Ziaur Rahman, in the capital.
The leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies, led by party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will place wreaths and offer munajat at the grave of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman at 11 am.
Besides, the BNP will arrange a doa mahfil at its Naya Paltan Central office in the afternoon on the same day. The programme will be arranged seeking divine blessings for those affected by floods for those who were killed and injured in the recent student-led mass movement and for the swift recovery of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.
At a recent meeting, the BNP's standing committee shotened the five-day celebrations and allocated the funds to the party's relief fund. The fund will be used to help the flood victims.
