UNB, Dhaka :
Ruling Awami League on Friday brought out a colourful rally from Suhrawardy Udyan, marking the 34th Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Thousands of people holding balloons, placards, festoons, national and Awami League’s flags and portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina and Sajeeb Wazed Joy, joined the rally from Suhrawardy Udyan to Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32 in the city in the afternoon.
The processionists also marched towards
Dhanmondi chanting slogans against firebomb terrorism and anarchy by Jamaat-Shibir.
Addressing a brief rally prior to bringing out the procession, Awami League presidium member and Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said Sheikh Hasina means democracy and achievement of Bangladesh.
Dhaka City unit Awami League acting president MA Aziz presided over the programme.
On May 17 in 1981, Hasina, who was newly elected as AL president, returned home from India after nearly six years in exile following the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members by a cabal of army officers on August 15, 1975.
However, Bangaban-dhu’s both the daughters — Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana — survived the attack as they were in Germany at tHat time.
Hasina was elected president of Bangladesh Awami League in her absence in the party’s national council held on February 14-16 in 1981. On her return home, Hasina was received at the then Kurmitola Airport in Dhaka by thousands of people defying rain and voicing their support for her and the party.
Awami League and its associate bodies marked the occasion in a befitting manner with a weeklong programme.
Ruling Awami League on Friday brought out a colourful rally from Suhrawardy Udyan, marking the 34th Homecoming Day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Thousands of people holding balloons, placards, festoons, national and Awami League’s flags and portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina and Sajeeb Wazed Joy, joined the rally from Suhrawardy Udyan to Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32 in the city in the afternoon.
The processionists also marched towards
Dhanmondi chanting slogans against firebomb terrorism and anarchy by Jamaat-Shibir.
Addressing a brief rally prior to bringing out the procession, Awami League presidium member and Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said Sheikh Hasina means democracy and achievement of Bangladesh.
Dhaka City unit Awami League acting president MA Aziz presided over the programme.
On May 17 in 1981, Hasina, who was newly elected as AL president, returned home from India after nearly six years in exile following the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members by a cabal of army officers on August 15, 1975.
However, Bangaban-dhu’s both the daughters — Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana — survived the attack as they were in Germany at tHat time.
Hasina was elected president of Bangladesh Awami League in her absence in the party’s national council held on February 14-16 in 1981. On her return home, Hasina was received at the then Kurmitola Airport in Dhaka by thousands of people defying rain and voicing their support for her and the party.
Awami League and its associate bodies marked the occasion in a befitting manner with a weeklong programme.
