<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>BNP on Wednesday announced a 15-day programme to observe the 43rd death anniversary of its founder and former president Ziaur Rahman on May 30.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the observance of Zia’s death anniversary programme will begin on May 28 and will end on June 28 through various programmes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ziaur Rahman, who founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in 1978, was assassinated by a group of army officers at Chittagong Circuit House on May 30, 1981.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As part of the programmes, black flags will be hoisted while the party flag will be kept at half-mast atop its offices, including its Nayapaltan headquarters, at 6 am on May 30.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, party leaders and workers will place wreaths at Zia's grave at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar at 10 am the same day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They will also offer fateha at Zia’s grave and join a doa and milad mahfil there, praying for the salvation of the departed soul of the BNP founder.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The party will arrange a discussion meeting on May 29 at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, in memory of Zia on the occasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, a mass prayer programme will be organised in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on May 31 seeking eternal peace for Zia’s departed soul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BNP and its associate bodies will arrange different programmes, including seminars and discussions, on Zia’s activities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The party’s city, district, upazila, and municipality units will also observe the day with due respect by arranging different programmes, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The leaders of the party’s Dhaka North and South city units will also distribute food items and clothes among the destitute in different parts of the city on May 30.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>