Friday, April 19, 2024
The 75th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling Awami League, will be celebrated across the country through various programmes on Wednesday.
On January 4 in 1948, the student organisation started its journey with the instructions of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, aiming to achieve the freedom of Bangladesh and its people.
The BCL has launched year-long elaborate programmes across the country marking its 75th founding anniversary.
To mark the day, national and party flags will be hoisted at all organisation offices including its central office at 6.30am on Wednesday.
Tribute will be paid at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi in the capital at 8am.
The founding anniversary will be celebrated at Dhaka University Curzon Hall at 8.30am. Distribution of winter clothes among the poor will be held at 3pm and the founding anniversary rally will be brought out at 2.30pm on January 6.
To mark the anniversary of the BCL, diagnosis of blood group will be held from January 5 to 8. They will also hold a voluntary blood donation event, and distribute educational equipment among the students.
Apart from this, the student organisation will observe various other programmes throughout the year which include taking initiatives in vegetable farming, orchard, aquaculture and animal husbandry on the fellow land up to the ward level.
To mark the anniversary, BCL President Saddam Hossain and General Secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Inan have already urged all the unit workers and leaders of the organisation to observe the programme in a befitting manner.
The student wing in its long political career had established a demand for the charter of freedom through the participation of mass people on behalf of 52’s language movement, the victory of Jukto front in 54’s provincial council elections, 58’s anti-Aiyub movement, 62’s education movement and six-point demand in 1966.
Later, the organisation also played a vital role in releasing Bangabandhu from imprisonment by staging a mass upsurge in 1969, winning an absolute majority in the election held in 1970 and bringing independence on behalf of the country after participating in 71’s Liberation War.
After winning independence on December 16 in 1971, BCL leaders and activists joined the reconstruction works of the war-ravaged Bangladesh under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The spirit of the liberation war and democratic progress also got stuck after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with his family members on August 15 in 1975.
Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had staged a movement for re-establishing the liberation war spirit and recovering democracy after returning to the country on May 17 in 1981. The BCL played an excellent role during the anti-autocrat movement held in 1990.
