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Hasina, Khaleda set for Senkunja meet
Hasina, Khaleda set for Senakunja meet | Politics | bdnews24.com
Wed, Nov 21st, 2012 1:16 am BdST
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Sumon Mahmud
Chief Political Correspondent
Dhaka, Nov 20 (bdnews24.com)Amid a tense political standoff over election-time government, Sheikh Hasina and her arch political rival BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will turn up at Dhaka Cantonment on the Armed Forces Day on Wednesday.
The evening get-together of the two most powerful political figures, who civil society members and people often suggest should see each other for solving political standoffs, has kept many on tenterhooks.
The Armed Forces Day is set to be observed at Shenakunja where politicians, diplomats and high-ranking government officers are also expected to be in attendance.
Prime Minister Hasina has been attending the programme every year but opposition leader Khaleda skipped the function in the past two years
The last time the BNP chief attended the programme was in 2009. She did not show up in 2010 and 2011 after losing her Cantonment house of 28 years at the workings of the government.
Her Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, when asked, confirmed bdnews24.com that she was going to attend the programme.
BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee member former Army chief Mahbubur Rahman, Maj Gen (Retd) Ruhul Alam Chowdhury, former Air Force chief Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and Brig Gen (Retd) ASM Hannan Shah are also expected.
Hasina, also the Defence Minister, has cancelled her tour of Pakistan to the D-8 summit for attending the ceremony. President Mohammad Zillur Rahman, the commander of the Armed Forces, will attend the function, as well.
Though the leading ladies seldom see each other, they meet on every Armed Forces Day, except for the last two years.
In their last meeting in 2010, they even exchanged greetings.
On Nov 21, 1971, the armed forces joined the people in the battle against Pakistan occupation forces as the independence war gathered momentum. The day is observed as Armed forces day ever since.
Besides the programmes drawn up by the armed forces, television channels, including the state-owned Bangladesh Television, will broadcast special programmes marking the ceremony.
Newspapers will carry special supplements to remember the moment of glory.
bdnews24.com/sm/eh/bd/2359h
Hasina, Khaleda set for Senakunja meet | Politics | bdnews24.com
Wed, Nov 21st, 2012 1:16 am BdST
File photo
Sumon Mahmud
Chief Political Correspondent
Dhaka, Nov 20 (bdnews24.com)Amid a tense political standoff over election-time government, Sheikh Hasina and her arch political rival BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will turn up at Dhaka Cantonment on the Armed Forces Day on Wednesday.
The evening get-together of the two most powerful political figures, who civil society members and people often suggest should see each other for solving political standoffs, has kept many on tenterhooks.
The Armed Forces Day is set to be observed at Shenakunja where politicians, diplomats and high-ranking government officers are also expected to be in attendance.
Prime Minister Hasina has been attending the programme every year but opposition leader Khaleda skipped the function in the past two years
The last time the BNP chief attended the programme was in 2009. She did not show up in 2010 and 2011 after losing her Cantonment house of 28 years at the workings of the government.
Her Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, when asked, confirmed bdnews24.com that she was going to attend the programme.
BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee member former Army chief Mahbubur Rahman, Maj Gen (Retd) Ruhul Alam Chowdhury, former Air Force chief Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and Brig Gen (Retd) ASM Hannan Shah are also expected.
Hasina, also the Defence Minister, has cancelled her tour of Pakistan to the D-8 summit for attending the ceremony. President Mohammad Zillur Rahman, the commander of the Armed Forces, will attend the function, as well.
Though the leading ladies seldom see each other, they meet on every Armed Forces Day, except for the last two years.
In their last meeting in 2010, they even exchanged greetings.
On Nov 21, 1971, the armed forces joined the people in the battle against Pakistan occupation forces as the independence war gathered momentum. The day is observed as Armed forces day ever since.
Besides the programmes drawn up by the armed forces, television channels, including the state-owned Bangladesh Television, will broadcast special programmes marking the ceremony.
Newspapers will carry special supplements to remember the moment of glory.
bdnews24.com/sm/eh/bd/2359h
