BCL's 75th founding anniversary today

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 today (Wednesday), reports BSS.
The student organisation was born on January 4 in 1948 with the instructions of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman aiming to achieve the freedom of Bangladesh and its people.
Meanwhile, the BCL has taken a year-long programme 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 6.30 am today. 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 8:00 am.
The founding anniversary will be celebrated at Dhaka University Curzon Hall at 8.30 am. Distribution of the winter cloths among the poor will be held at 3:00 pm and the founding anniversary rally will be brought out at 2.30 pm on January 6.
To mark the anniversary of the BCL, even testing of blood group will be held from January 5 to 8, voluntarily blood donation, distribution of educational equipments among the students will also be held.
Apart from this, the BCL will hold different programmes throughout the year, which includes taking initiatives of vegetable farming, orchard, aquaculture and animal husbandry on the fallow land up to the ward level of the country during any convenient time with the instructions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
To mark the anniversary, BCL President Saddam Hossain and its general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Inan have already urged all the leaders and activists of the organisation to observe the programme in a befitting manner.
The student wing in its long political career had established a demand of charter of the freedom through participation of mass people on behalf of 52's language movement, 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.
Then the organization had also played a vital role in releasing Bangabandhu from the imprisonment through staging mass upsurge in 1969, winning absolute majority in the election held in 1970 and bring independence on behalf of the country after participating in 71's Liberation War.