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BNP steps into 35
Vows to restore interim govt system Staff Correspondent
On its 34th founding anniversary yesterday, the BNP vowed to forge a tougher anti-government movement to restore the non-party caretaker government system ahead of the next general elections.
Leaders, workers and supporters led by BNP chief Khaleda Zia placed floral wreaths at the grave of the founder of the party and late president Ziaur Rahman at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.
Leaders and workers of the BNP and its front and associated bodies thronged the grave premises to pay tributes to the late leader. Zia
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Cultural Organisation, a pro-BNP body, held a volun-tary blood donation programme there.
The national and party flags were hoisted at all the party offices across the country, including at the party's Naya Paltan headquarters.
The pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Publication Association threw open a three-day book fair in the party office in the afternoon.
Earlier in the morning, the party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir briefed newsmen.
Replying to a query, the BNP leader said restoration of the caretaker government system and democracy are the key challenges facing his party. He hoped that they would be successful with public support.
"We are in a movement. Now it's our challenge to intensify the movement to restore the non-party caretaker government in the Constitution," he added.
Fakhrul remembered the party founder with due
respect and lauded Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia for her outstanding leadership of the party as well as the country.
Zia, the country's first military ruler, founded the party in 1978. He was assassinated in an abortive coup in May 1981. He was succeeded as president by Justice Abdus Sattar, who was ousted in March 1982 by army chief General Ershad.
Subsequently, the BNP dumped Sattar from the leadership of the party and placed Khaleda at its helm. Under her leadership it returned to power in 1991.
The party lost the 1996 elections, but came back to power in 2001 with a landslide victory. However, it went down to a humiliating defeat at the 2008 elections.
The caretaker government system was scrapped from the Constitution in June last year.
Khaleda on Thursday reiterated her demand that the next national election, which is due for January in 2014, must be held under a neutral administration.
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