Maintain discipline in organisational activities
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders to maintain discipline in their organisational activities.
Hasina said this as top BCL leaders led by its President Mahmud Hasan Ripon and General Secretary Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Rotan called on the PM at her official residence Jamuna in the city on the occasion of the organisation's 62nd founding anniversary.
"She [Hasina] asked us to work properly maintaining discipline and wished us success," said Iqbal Mahmud Bablu, a joint secretary of BCL central committee, after emerging from Jamuna.
The BCL leaders also cut a cake at Jamuna marking the day.
Earlier, the celebrations began through cutting of a cake on Curzon Hall premises at Dhaka University (DU) at 12:01am.
BCL Leaders, led by President Ripon and General Secretary Rotan, placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of the organisation at Dhanmondi in the morning.
Former BCL leader and incumbent Awami League Presidium Member Obaidul Quader formally inaugurated the celebration by releasing pigeons and balloons at the feet of Aparajeyo Bangla on DU campus.
Obaidul Quader said there is a single agenda before the BCL and it is -- changing the days.
"In order to do this, changes have to come in the attitude and mentality of the leaders and activists and in the organisation's culture," he said.
He also stressed involving meritorious students with the organisation saying that if student politics becomes merit-less, the national politics would become merit-less, too.
Former BCL leaders, including Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Abdul Mannan, Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, Ahmed Hossain, Bahauddin Nasim, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Mahbubul Haque Shakil and Saifuzzaman Shikhar were present.
Later, around 10000 BCL men brought out a colourful procession that paraded different city streets.
Some BCL men joined the procession riding over 150 motorbikes.
The organisation started its journey in 1948 under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, then a young and promising student leader and a student at the law department of DU.
Since its inception, BCL contributed a great to the Language Movement in 1952, Mass Upsurge in 1969, War of Liberation in 1971, Anti-Autocrat Movement in 1990 and other movements in the country.
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