AL's 74th founding anniversary today

The 74th founding anniversary of ruling Awami League, which led the country's independence through the 1971 Great Liberation War, will be celebrated today (Friday), reports BSS.
Established on June 23, 1949 as Awami Muslim League at Rose Garden in capital's old part on the day, later the party appeared as Bangladesh Awami League (AL) to give it a secular look.
The AL has taken elaborate programmes, marking its founding anniversary.
AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave a message marking the party's founding anniversary recalling its contribution to the birth of Bangladesh and all democratic movements.
In her message, the premier said since its inception, every achievement in the soil of this land has been under the leadership of Awami League.
The AL was behind the root of all the achievements of Bangalees till today, including the country's overall development from the protection of the dignity of mother tongue and subsequently the War of Liberation in 1971, she added.
The Awami League is one of the oldest, non-communal, largest and leading political parties in the country. And the work of building a non-communal Bangladesh was first started by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
At the time of its establishment, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was in jail. But he was made joint general secretary then.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Awami League (AL), one of the country's oldest political parties, has drawn up an elaborate programmes to celebrate its 74th founding anniversary today (Friday), reports BSS.
The anniversary programme will begin with hoisting the national and party flags atop all party offices, including the Bangabandhu Avenue central office, with the sunrise today (Friday).
Later, rich tributes will be paid to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his portrait on the premises of Bangabandhu Bhaban in Dhanmondi at 7 am.
A delegation of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will place wreaths at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu at Tungipara in Gopalganj at 10:30 am.
A discussion will be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Agargaon at 3.30 pm on the day. Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair and address the discussion.
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader called upon the party units at different tiers across the country and its associate and like-minded bodies to celebrate the party's founding anniversary through different programmes keeping similarity with the central programmes.