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| In her marriage certificates and the document of her top ministerial oath, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had used August 5, 1944, and August 19, 1947 as her birthdays. Nonetheless, through the tip of 1995 or early 1996, the BNP chief and her party leaders started to have a good time her birthday on a new date: August 15, the day in 1975 when the Father of the Nation used to be killed brutally along with his family participants. |
The whole fact is that Khaleda Zia joins her celebration leaders to rejoice her birthday on that day.
Take the illustration of the final year's birthday get together. She reduce a 50-pound cake at 12:01am at her Gulshan party office. Her get together leaders and activists wished her “happy birthday”.
She additionally reduce two extra cakes introduced by way of Dhaka metropolis BNP and the occasion’s student entrance Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal. After receiving flowers from celebration supporters on the place of business gate, she then asked the party leaders to distribute the cakes among the many leaders and activists.
Senior get together leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Jamiruddin Sircar, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moin Khan and Nazrul Islam Khan accompanied her there.
She has been chopping cake virtually each 12 months for round last two decades. Does not this imply she herself rejoice her beginning day?
The BNP chief’s spokesperson Ripon would reply: “No”. Addressing a press briefing the day prior to this, he also opined that get together of birthday is any person's personal subject and none must say whatever about it.
He made the remarks in response to ruling Awami League general Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam's call to Khaleda not to celebrate her birthday this 12 months in a gesture to show respect to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Query is raised over any one's taste and intellectual well being if s/he suddenly discovers his/her date of delivery on the country wide Mourning Day and celebrates it via reducing cake to mock at his/her political rivals.
Is August 15 Khaleda's exact birthday?
Up to now, the media pronounced on a couple of dates of her birth. As per the reports, she stated September 5, 1946, as her birthday in the kind she stuffed for matriculation examination.
However in her marriage certificates and within the record of her prime ministerial oath, Khaleda had used August 5, 1944, and August 19, 1947 as her birthdays.
Finally these, the BNP chief and her celebration leaders all of a sudden discovered, with the aid of the tip of 1995 or early 1996, a brand new date to have a good time her start: August 15, the day in 1975 when Father of the Nation used to be killed brutally alongside with his family participants and employees.
In 2001, Khaleda's government even cancelled the earlier Sheikh Hasina government’s announcement of August 15 as a national holiday and scrapped the fame of the national Mourning Day.
These are nothing but a transparent example of confrontational politics in the nation.
There used to be no legit programme to mark the mourning day except 2009 when Hasina's government once more declared August 15 as a national excursion giving it the reputation because the countrywide Mourning Day.
Although it appears from Ripon's statement that the celebration chief and her leaders may celebrate her birthday on August 15 this year too, Khaleda nonetheless can make a sport changing transfer if she withdraws from celebrating her birthday on that day and also asks her get together men to follow her.
Any such decision will earn her a political mileage and free her from the controversy she has mired herself by way of celebrating a dubious birthday.
Will she do so?
