Staff Reporter, USA: The United States Awami League and the Awami Family have celebrated the 72nd founding anniversary of the Bangladesh Awami League. The ceremony was inaugurated by flying a balloon in Jackson Heights, New York on Sunday, local time. In addition to the discussion meeting, there was a cultural presentation
Awami League leader said.
Presided over by Pradeep Ranjan Kar and conducted by Mohammad Ali Siddiquee, the program was attended by Rathindranath Roy and Shahid Hasan, vocalists of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, former BTV producer Belal Beg, freedom fighter Tajul Imam, poet Saleha Islam and former student leader Abdul Latif Biswas.
Speakers said that three and a half years after the Awami League-led independence, when Bangabandhu’s leadership was on the path of economic liberation, the insidious mahal and the anti-independence clique assassinated Bangabandhu and his family on 15 August 1975. Attempts were made to wipe out the organization by assassinating four national leaders in jails. Sheikh Hasina played a leading role in building a hunger and poverty free Bangladesh by forming a government in 1996 in the wake of dictatorship, various democratic movements, mass uprisings of the 90s and anti-evil movement. He formed the government again in 2008 and showed the dream of building a happy and prosperous middle-income digital Bangladesh in the light of ‘Vision 2021’. Elected Prime Minister for the third time in 2014, Awami League President Sheikh Hasina expressed her commitment to build a developed, prosperous, modern Bangladesh in the light of ‘Vision 2041’.
Faruk Hossain, Bakhtiyar Ahmed, Khan Shawkat, Khorshed Babul, Haqiqul Islam Khokon, Manjur Chowdhury, Kaikobad Khan, Chadekuzzaman Panna and T Mollah among others addressed the meeting.
Vocalists Rathindranath Roy and Shahid Hasan of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, freedom fighters Tajul Imam and Jolly Kar took part in the cultural program. Tapan Modak accompanied the artists on tabla.
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