The 74th founding anniversary of the ruling Awami League will be celebrated on Friday in a befitting manner.
The AL, which led the country's independence war in 1971 under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will organise elaborate programmes to mark its founding anniversary.
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The party will hoist the national and party flags at its central and other party offices across the country at dawn while it will pay tribute to Bangabandhu's portrait in front of the Bangabandhu Bhaban in Dhaka at 7:00 am.
As part of the day's programmes, a delegation of the AL Central Executive Committee will also pay homage at the grave of Bangabandhu, the greatest Bangalee of all time, by placing wreaths at Tungipara at 10.30am.
A discussion is scheduled at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) at 3.30 pm on the same day while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the party’s president, will chair the discussion meeting.
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Hasina also gave a message to mark the party's founding anniversary recalling its contribution to the birth of Bangladesh and all democratic movements.
The Awami League was established on June 23, 1949.