Tomorrow, the nation will mark the 75th anniversary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League`s formation with a variety of events. The BCL is the student branch of the Awami League, which is currently in power.
In accordance with the directives of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation, the student group was established on January 4 of 1948 with the goal of achieving the freedom of Bangladesh and its citizens.
In the meantime, the Chhatra League has organized lavish events all around the nation to commemorate its 75th founding anniversary.
At 6.30am on Wednesday, flags representing the nation and the party will be raised at all organization locations, including the central office. In front of the Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi in the nation`s capital, tribute will be paid to the statue of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation.
The founding anniversary will be celebrated at Dhaka University Curzon Hall at 8.30am. Distribution of the winter cloths among the poor will be held at 3pm and the founding anniversary rally will be brought out at 2.30pm on January 6. To mark the anniversary of the Chhatra League, even diagnosis of blood group will be held from January 5 to 8, voluntarily blood donation, distribution of educational equipments among the students will also be held. Apart from this, the Chhatra League will observe different programmes throughout the year which includes taking initiatives of vegetable farming, orchard, aquaculture and animal husbandry on the fellow land up to the ward level of the country during any convenient time with the instructions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
To mark the anniversary, the Chhatra League President Saddam Hossain and its general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Inan have already urged all the unit workers and leaders of the organization to observe the program in a befitting manner. The student wing in its long political career had established a demand of charter of freedom through the participation of mass people on behalf of 52’s language movement, the victory of the Jukto front in 54’s provincial council elections, 58’s anti-Aiyub movement, 62’s education movement and six-point demand in 1966.
Then the organization had also played a vital role in releasing Bangabandhu from imprisonment by staging mass upsurge in 1969, winning absolute majority in the election held in 1970 and bring independence on behalf of the country after participating in 71’s Liberation War. After winning the independence on December 16 in 1971, the Chhatra League leaders and activists joined the reconstruction works of the war-ravaged Bangladesh under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The spirit of the liberation war and the democratic progress also got stuck after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with his family members on August 15 in 1975.
Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had staged movement for re-establishing the liberation war spirit and recovering democracy after return to the country on May 17 in 1981. The Chhatra League played an excellent role during the anti-autocrat movement held in 1990 led by Sheikh Hasina.
JH
