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BNP observes Zia's birthday, pledges to rebuild party

Staff Correspondent
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday said the ume is ripe for the party men to stand corrected and undergo selfrealisation and reflection, if needed.
"We have to think about what we say; if they are right or wrong; we have to take a vow to rectify our mistakes, if any," Khandaker Delwar said at a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club.
Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sanskritik Sangstha (Jasas) organised the meeting to mark the 73rd birth anniversary of late president Ziaur Rahman.
Delwar dismissed any involvement of Ziaur Rahman with the brutal killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15.1975.
Speaking as the chief guest the BNP leader said Ziaur
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Rahman played a role to bring Sheikh Hasina back to her motherland and then Ziaur Rahman was assassinated within a few days of her coming back.
Earlier, in the morning BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia offered fateha at the mazar of Ziaur Rahman at city's Zia Uddyan to mark his birth anniversary.
Khaleda along with her party senior leaders and activists and its front organizations placed floral wreaths at Zia's mazar and took part in a milad-mahfil organised by the Jatiyatabadi Olama Dal for the salvation of the departed soul of Zia. the founder of BNP
Khaleda, later, inaugurated a voluntary blood donation programme organized at the mazar premises.
Speaker and deputy speaker of the parliament Jamiruddin Sircar and Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui also visited Zia's mazar and placed floral wreaths.
Khandaker Delwar, BNP leaders including Moudud Ahmed. M Shamsul Islam, MK Anwar. Nazrul Islam Khan, among others, accompanied the BNP chief.
Hundreds of BNP activists and its supporters flocked to Ziaur Rahman's mazar as it was opened for the public.
Presided over by Jasas president MA Malek, BNP Joint Secretary General Nazrul Islam Khan, Dhaka University professor AFM Yusuf Haider addressed the meeting, among others.