UNB, Dhaka :
Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal celebrated BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s 70th birthday by cutting a cake on Saturday afternoon.
Leaders and activists of the Mohila Dal, BNP’s women wing, cut the cake at party vice chairman Selima Rahman’s Banani residence.
A munajat was also offered there seeking long life of the BNP chief. It was the only programme on Saturday to mark Khaleda’s birthday. Unlike previous years, Khaleda did not cut any cake at the wee hours on Saturday to celebrate
her birthday at her Gulshan office. There was also no programme at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office to mark the birthday. Party sources said Dhaka city BNP, different associate bodies of the party, including Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal, are set to wish Khaleda happy birthday with flowers and cut cakes at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office when she arrives there at night.
According to BNP leaders, Khaleda, a three-time Prime Minister, was born on August 15, 1946, but there is a lot of debates about her actual date of birth and year.
Various records suggest Khaleda Zia was born in 1945. But last year her party claimed her actual birth year is 1946. She also registered her birth year 1946 in her new passport.
According to Banglapedia and wikipedia and Britannica Khaleda Zia was born to Iskandar Majumder, a businessman, and Taiyaba Majumder in Dinajpur district in 1945.
The bio-data Khaleda Zia submitted to the Parliament Secretariat when she was made the opposition leader last suggests that the BNP chief was born on August 15, 1945.
The controversy over the birthday began in 1991 when Khaleda first celebrated it on August 15 after assuming office as Prime Minister and declared it as her ‘official birthday’.
Despite criticisms by Awami League, BNP and its associate bodies have been celebrating her birthday on August 15 since then. Awami League leaders have long been claiming that her birthday is Sept 5, 1945 according to her marriage certificate, while Aug 19, 1946 as per her first passport. Khaleda herself put the date as Aug 9, 1944 while registering her name for the matriculation exams, they said.
Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal celebrated BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s 70th birthday by cutting a cake on Saturday afternoon.
Leaders and activists of the Mohila Dal, BNP’s women wing, cut the cake at party vice chairman Selima Rahman’s Banani residence.
A munajat was also offered there seeking long life of the BNP chief. It was the only programme on Saturday to mark Khaleda’s birthday. Unlike previous years, Khaleda did not cut any cake at the wee hours on Saturday to celebrate
her birthday at her Gulshan office. There was also no programme at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office to mark the birthday. Party sources said Dhaka city BNP, different associate bodies of the party, including Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal, are set to wish Khaleda happy birthday with flowers and cut cakes at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office when she arrives there at night.
According to BNP leaders, Khaleda, a three-time Prime Minister, was born on August 15, 1946, but there is a lot of debates about her actual date of birth and year.
Various records suggest Khaleda Zia was born in 1945. But last year her party claimed her actual birth year is 1946. She also registered her birth year 1946 in her new passport.
According to Banglapedia and wikipedia and Britannica Khaleda Zia was born to Iskandar Majumder, a businessman, and Taiyaba Majumder in Dinajpur district in 1945.
The bio-data Khaleda Zia submitted to the Parliament Secretariat when she was made the opposition leader last suggests that the BNP chief was born on August 15, 1945.
The controversy over the birthday began in 1991 when Khaleda first celebrated it on August 15 after assuming office as Prime Minister and declared it as her ‘official birthday’.
Despite criticisms by Awami League, BNP and its associate bodies have been celebrating her birthday on August 15 since then. Awami League leaders have long been claiming that her birthday is Sept 5, 1945 according to her marriage certificate, while Aug 19, 1946 as per her first passport. Khaleda herself put the date as Aug 9, 1944 while registering her name for the matriculation exams, they said.
