AL announces 40-day prog

The ruling Awami League (AL)  announced a 40-day programme to commemorate the 40th anniversary of martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the National Mourning Day, reports BSS.
A statement of Awami League (AL) said that the party, its associate, likeminded and friendly bodies will organise programmes from the early hours of August 01 to September 09.
The programmes of the month of mourning will be initiated with a candle light vigil (march of lights) towards Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the capital at one minute past zero hours on August 1.
At 12-o-clock on that day, leaders of AL Central Working Committee, Advisory Council, district units and associate and likeminded bodies will lay wreaths at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu at Tungipara, offer doa and take part in munajat there. At 4:00 in the afternoon, Bangladesh Krishak League will organise a blood donation camp followed by a discussion on the premises of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the city. AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the programme as the chief guest.
The programmes of the National Mourning Day on August 15 include lowering of the national and party flags at half-mast and hoisting of black flags at Bangabandhu Bhaban, party's central office and its offices across the country at dawn, placing of wreaths at the portrait of Father of the Nation at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi at 6-45 am and at the graves of the martyrs of August 15 carnage at Banani at 7-30 am, offering of fateha,munajat and milad mahfil there.