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Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam urged the new generations to join his party on the party's 63rd founding anniversary on Saturday.
"If the new generation wants to develop the country, to do something for the nation and to bring happiness to people, I'll urge them to join Awami League," Ashraf told reporters after a founding day programme.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the programme by placing wreaths on the mural of the Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi's Bangabandhu Memorial Museum. Cabinet members and senior party leaders accompanied her.
The national anthem was played when she hoisted the flags of the nation and the party. She left after releasing balloons and pigeons.
Later, Awami League's associate organisations showed their respect to Sheikh Mujib by placing wreaths on his mural.
The party hoisted its flag along with the national one in the morning in its offices across the country, including the headquarters at Bangabandhu Avenue.
It will organise a discussion, to be attended by Hasina, at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the afternoon.
Since its birth, the awami League quickly gained widespread support throughout then East Pakistan.
Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani was the founding president of the party with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman initially holding the post of joint secretary.
Later, in 1952, Mujib assumed the position of acting general secretary before becoming general secretary of the party the following year. He remained at the helm for 13 years.
Established as an alternative to the domination of the Muslim League in Pakistan, the Awami League soon became associated with the principles of secularism and Bangalee nationalism.
Having formed a coalition government in 1954, the party championed the Bengali language movement in 1952 while decrying overt discrimination between the two Pakistani provinces.
The party gained a healthy majority in the historical election of 1970, however this was not acceptable to the political establishment of West Pakistan and the bloody events of the independence war soon erupted in the troubled region.
Sheikh Mujib declared an independent Bangladesh just before he was arrested and taken to jail in Pakistan. Later, other party leaders formed an interim government on April 17.
Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujib and his family members in 1975, his daughter Sheikh Hasina, who survived the attack while abroad, returned home in 1981 and took charge of the party.
The Awami League has formed government three times since the birth of the nation.
"If the new generation wants to develop the country, to do something for the nation and to bring happiness to people, I'll urge them to join Awami League," Ashraf told reporters after a founding day programme.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the programme by placing wreaths on the mural of the Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi's Bangabandhu Memorial Museum. Cabinet members and senior party leaders accompanied her.
The national anthem was played when she hoisted the flags of the nation and the party. She left after releasing balloons and pigeons.
Later, Awami League's associate organisations showed their respect to Sheikh Mujib by placing wreaths on his mural.
The party hoisted its flag along with the national one in the morning in its offices across the country, including the headquarters at Bangabandhu Avenue.
It will organise a discussion, to be attended by Hasina, at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the afternoon.
Since its birth, the awami League quickly gained widespread support throughout then East Pakistan.
Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani was the founding president of the party with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman initially holding the post of joint secretary.
Later, in 1952, Mujib assumed the position of acting general secretary before becoming general secretary of the party the following year. He remained at the helm for 13 years.
Established as an alternative to the domination of the Muslim League in Pakistan, the Awami League soon became associated with the principles of secularism and Bangalee nationalism.
Having formed a coalition government in 1954, the party championed the Bengali language movement in 1952 while decrying overt discrimination between the two Pakistani provinces.
The party gained a healthy majority in the historical election of 1970, however this was not acceptable to the political establishment of West Pakistan and the bloody events of the independence war soon erupted in the troubled region.
Sheikh Mujib declared an independent Bangladesh just before he was arrested and taken to jail in Pakistan. Later, other party leaders formed an interim government on April 17.
Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujib and his family members in 1975, his daughter Sheikh Hasina, who survived the attack while abroad, returned home in 1981 and took charge of the party.
The Awami League has formed government three times since the birth of the nation.
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