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RANGPUR, Sept 1, 2026 (BSS) - The district and metropolitan units of 
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its affiliated organisations 
celebrated the 48th founding anniversary of the party through colorful 
programmes here today.
 
The founding anniversary was celebrated at the city, district, upazila and 
union council levels of the district through various programmes including 
hoisting of national and party flags, tree plantation, fish release, 
discussions, food distribution and cultural functions.
 
At the initiative of the district BNP, its convener and Rangpur District 
Council Administrator Md Saiful Islam with party leaders and workers released 
fish fry in Nilkanathya Zia Khal in Rangpur metropolis in the morning. 
 
After that, he planted tree saplings in the city's Guptapara Government 
Primary School premises and Chhoto Nurpur graveyard and fruit and distributed 
forest and medicinal tree saplings among students in the premises of the 
Homeopathy College in the city. 
 
At these events, senior members of district BNP Md Fazlur Rahman Badal, Md 
Liton Parvez, Md Shahadat Hossain and other leaders and activists were 
present. 
 
In the afternoon, the party leaders visited the grave of the former member-
secretary of the district BNP late Md Anisur Rahman Laku and offered munajats 
there seeking eternal peace for his departed soul. 
 
In the afternoon, a colorful procession, led by district BNP convener and 
Rangpur District Council Administrator Md Saiful Islam, was taken out in the 
city to mark the 48th founding anniversary of the BNP. 
 
Later, the district BNP organised a discussion at the Public Library ground 
at 3 pm and brought out a huge colorful rally from the Public Library ground 
to Shapla Chattar Point in the city. 
 
After the rally, a memorial meeting and prayer mahfil was held on the 
occasion of the seventh death anniversary of the late heroic freedom fighter, 
former General Secretary of Rangpur District BNP and a popular politician Md 
Mozaffar Hossain.
 
Earlier at noon, Rangpur Metropolitan BNP took out a colorful procession from 
the party office at the Grand Hotel Mor in the city. 
 
Advocate Rezeka Sultana Fency, MP, Metropolitan BNP Convener and Rangpur 
Development Authority Chairman Md Shamsuzzaman Samu, Senior Joint Convener Md 
Shahidul Islam Mizu, Member-Secretary and Rangpur City Corporation 
Administrator Advocate Mahfuz-un-Nabi Chowdhury Don, Senior Members Selim 
Chowdhury, Abdus Salam, senior joint convener of Metropolitan Jubo Dal Jahir 
Alam Nayan and others led the procession. 
 
With the participation of hundreds of leaders and workers of BNP and its 
associate organisations, the colorful procession ended at the Zilla School 
after circumambulating important roads in the city. 
 
Leaders and activists of various allied organizations including the 
Metropolitan Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, Swechchasebak Dal, Mahila Dal, Krishak 
Dal, Tanti Dal, Sramik Dal, Ulama Dal, Zia Sangsad, JASAS and others 
participated in the event. 
 
At the initiative of former acting member-secretary of Rangpur Metropolitan 
BNP and its incumbent senior member Selim Chowdhury, improved foods were 
distributed among the needy in front of the city's Mulatol Medinatul Ulum 
Kamil Madrasa. 
 
Senior joint convener of the Rangpur Metropolitan BNP Md Shahidul Islam Mizu 
attended the food distribution ceremony as the chief guest and distributed 
foods among the poor and needy people of the city. 
 
There was great enthusiasm among the leaders and activists of BNP and its 
affiliated organisations surrounding the programmes organized on the occasion 
of the party's 48th founding anniversary. 
 
Hundreds of leaders and activists gathered in front of the party office with 
processions from different wards and areas of the city and jointly 
participated in the colorful rallies. 
 
The BNP leaders and activists said that the party has been struggling for a 
long time to establish the rights, democracy and voting rights of the people 
of the country. 
 
On this day of the founding anniversary, they expressed their determination 
to make the party stronger and better organized. 
 
After the rallies, the leaders called on the party leaders and activists to 
remain united and expressed their determination to continue the movement and 
struggle of BNP to establish the democratic rights of the people of the 
country. 
 
On September 1, 1978, Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman founded the BNP. He was 
the founding chairman of the party.