Hossen Sohel of DOT
The BNP has paid respects to founder Ziaur Rahman on his 83rd birthday, reports bdnews24.com.
Zia was born in Bogura’s Gabtali on Jan 19, 1936.
He took control of the government after the assassination of Bangbabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 and formed the BNP.
His wife, Khaleda Zia, took control of the party after Zia was killed in a military coup in 1981. The current BNP chairperson has led the party to office twice and served as the prime minister.
Though Khaleda Zia has always paid tribute at her husband’s grave on his birthday, she is unable to this year due to her imprisonment over several graft cases. A delegation of BNP leaders, led by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, went to the grave of Ziaur Rahman in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar at 10 am on Saturday to pay their respects.
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