DHAKA, Sep 1, 2026 (BSS) – The Uttara unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) staged a colourful rally to celebrate the party’s 48th founding anniversary.

    BNP Acting Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi joined the rally as the 
chief guest while it was followed by a colorful street march  that paraded the thoroughfares of the area starting from the Polwell Market near Abdullahpur and ended at Jasimuddin More defying drizzles.

   "Forty eight years ago, a distinguished son of this country, the great proclaimer of Independence Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman established BNP with several commitments,” Rizvi told the rally.

   The acting secretary general said Ziaur Rahman did not practice politics at that time and rather as an army officer he had led the great Liberation War but a crucial juncture in the national life led him to political arena and he took the helm of the party.

    Rizvi said Ziaur Rahman led the country in protecting the independence and sovereignty and simultaneously reintroduced multi-party democracy alongside spearheading a massive campaign for development, production, and self-reliance.

   "Today marks six months of the BNP government. Can anyone point to a single incident of enforced disappearance or extrajudicial killing?” he said,

   Rizvi said during the previous regimes bodies of people with dissenting opinions were routinely found on the banks of the Padma, the Madhumati, and various other rivers, as well as in fields and meadows.

   The rally presided over by Dhaka-18 constituency MP S M Jahangir Hossain while Mustafa Zaman, member secretary of Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP spoke.