Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Choudhury on Sunday urged the grassroots level leaders and activists of Awami League to work together to strengthen the party based on the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“Bangabandhu deeply loved the Bengalis and for this reason he struggled throughout his life for establishing economic and political freedom for them,” said the Speaker while speaking as the chief guest at a programme at Pirganj, Rangpur.
Pirganj Upazila Awami League organized a doa and discussion meeting marking the National Mourning Day and 45th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the upazila parishad auditorium with upazila Awami League president Advocate Azizur Rahman Rana in the chair.
Pirganj upazila Awami League general secretary ASM Tazimul Islam Shamim, former cultural affairs secretary of upazila Awami League Saidul Islam Pintu, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Dr Shirin said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the undisputed leader of the Bengalis and Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib was his ideal companion.
Bangabandhu, his spouse Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib and most of the family members were assassinated in cold blood on August 15, 1975, she added.
“We are now the citizens of an independent country . . . we got this independent-sovereign country because of Bangabandu who inspired Bengalis to achieve their right of freedom, said the speaker. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina became the president of Awami League in 1981 and reorganised the party with utmost devotion and dedication, Dr Shirin said and urged all to strengthen the hands of Sheikh Hasina for building a hunger-poverty free Bangladesh as dreamt by Bangabandhu.
