BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has paid respects on the Victory Day to the nation’s war heroes who laid down their lives for Bangladesh’s independence in 1971.
The party’s senior leaders and activities accompanied her in placing wreath at the National Memorial at Savar at around 11am on Wednesday.
They included acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Standing Committee members Abdul Moyeen Khan, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Vice-Chairman Selima Rahman and many others.
Leaders and activists of several BNP front groups joined them in paying respect to the bravehearts of 1971.
Bangladesh is celebrating the 44th anniversary of its victory over Pakistan on Wednesday.
Nearly three million people were killed in the nine-month long 1971 Liberation War and 200,000 women and girls were dishonoured.
Before paying tributes, Moyeen Khan told reporters, “There is no democracy and good governance in the country 44 years after independence.”
“The government boasts of economic independence but it is hollow claim.”
“We don’t get permission to organise meetings and rallies as the opposition. What kind of victory we’ve got here?” he said.
From the National Memorial, Khaleda Zia led her party to pay tributes to her late husband Ziaur Rahman, who was Sector commander during the 1971 Liberation War.
She laid a wreath on his grave at Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar at around 12pm.
Mirza Fakhrul Islami Alamgir told reporters there that the democracy which the nation had fought for does not prevail anymore in the country.
“But the BNP with the people’s support will bring democracy back through a constitutional movement,” he said.
Source: bdnews24