BNP on Thursday announced a 4-day programmes to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day and celebrate the Victory Day.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programmes at a press conference at the party's Naya Paltan Central Office after a joint meeting of the party and its associate bodies. Rizvi said the leaders and activists of BNP will pay homage to martyred intellectuals at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in the morning on December 14 (Saturday), marking the day.
The party will keep the national flag at half-mast and hoist black flags atop all its offices, including the Naya Paltan party office, on the occasion. Besides, he said BNP will arrange a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh at 2:00pm on Friday (Dec 13).
Rizvi said BNP will hoist national and party flags atop the party offices in the morning on December 16 (Monday), marking the Victory Day.
He said party leaders and activists, led by its senior leaders, will place wreaths at the National Mausoleum at Savar on the day. Later, the BNP leader said they will place a wreath at the grave of late BNP founder Ziaur Rahman at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the capital on the same day.
He said an open music concert will be arranged at the capital's Manik Mia Avenue at 3:00pm on December 16, marking the Victory Day.
Rizvi said 'Sobar Aage Bangladesh' (Bangladesh first) will organise this concert. The BNP's Naya Paltan central office and the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office will be illuminated on the occasion. Different units and associate bodies of BNP will also mark the two days with various programmes across the country.
The Martyred Intellectuals Day will be observed across the country on Saturday (December 14), to pay homage to the intellectuals who were brutally killed by the Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators at the fag end of the country's Liberation War in 1971.
