AL’s 68th founding anniversary today

Desk Report: Bangladesh Awami League (AL) is observing its 68th founding anniversary today (June 23) amid holding different programmes.

Floated on this day in 1949, Awami League has been transformed into a mass organisation of the people of the country by leading all the democratic-political-social-cultural movements including the long arduous freedom struggle and the War of Liberation.
Prime Minster and AL President Sheikh Hasina have greeted the countrymen including her party men and paid due respect to the party's founders on the occasion of its 68th founding anniversary saying, " AL will always stay beside the people as before."

Marking the founding anniversary, the ruling AL has taken an extensive programme, including hoisting of the national and party flags at its offices across the country at dawn, placing of wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu on the premises of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi.

Though the country's biggest political party was floated as Awami Muslim League at the historical Rose Garden at KM Das Lane in Dhaka, the word 'Muslim' was dropped at its third council in 1955.

In a statement, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, called upon the party units across the country and their associate and like-minded bodies to observe the founding anniversary of the party.



risingbd/June 23, 2017/Mukul