The Awami League's joint general secretary, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, on Thursday said that opposition leader Khaleda Zia should apologise to the nation for having shown such open contempt for the country's Constitution during a hunger strike in Dhaka on Wednesday, which was held in protest against police brutality and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
Referring to Khaleda Zia's comment — 'The BNP, if voted to power, will just throw away the new Constitution passed by the Awami League government' — Hanif said, 'Khaleda Zia should apologise for her comment.'
Hanif also strongly condemned her speech at the BNP's hunger strike in protest against the police assault on the opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque, in which she claimed that her party's activists had been 'tortured' during the hartal on July 6-7.
The BNP chairperson said the recent amendments to the Constitution were part of Awami League's own agenda.
Hanif made the above comment at the extended meeting of the AL with its Dhaka City unit, associate and friendly bodies, at the party's headquarters on Bangabandhu Avenue.
The meeting was organised to chalk up elaborate programmes to observe National Mourning Day on August 15 to mark the 36th death anniversary of the country's founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and also to observe the seventh anniversary of the grenade attack on its rally on 21 August, 2004 in which 24 people, including the party's women's affairs secretary, Ivy Rahman, were killed.
The Awami League has also declared August to be the Month of Mourning.
As part of its month-long activities, the ruling party has drafted programmes for August 14, 15 and 16.
The programme on August 14 includes placing of wreaths at the tomb of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara by members of AL's central working committee, advisory council and of the Cabinet. A delegation of the AL will stay at Tungipara to observe the mourning day there on August 15.
On August 15, the national flags and party flags will be hoisted at half-mast along with black flags at Bangabandhu Bhaban, the AL's central office and all other offices of the party across the country at sunrise. Wreaths will be placed before the portrait of Bangabandhu in Bangabandhu Bhaban at 7am, and mourning processions will be taken out.
Wreaths will also be placed and Fateha and milad mahfil held at the Banani Graveyard at 7:30 am. Iftar will be served in wards, unions, upazilas and districts, and special prayers will be offered at temples, pagodas and churches after Asar prayer.
The Bangladesh Mahila Awami League will hold a milad mahfil in Bangabandhu Bhaban at the same time.
On August 16, the AL will hold a discussion meeting in the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at 3pm. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the party's chief, will attend the meeting as the chief guest.
On August 21, to mark the grenade attack, the party will hold a discussion programme on Bangabandu Avenue, which will be attended by Sheikh Hasina as the chief guest.
Hasina will also hold an iftar mahfil at Ganabhaban with family members of the persons killed and maimed on August 21.
All district committees and associate organisations will chalk out programmes in conformity with the AL's programmes.
Source : New Age
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