The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Bangladesh Muslim League (Yousuf) yesterday observed the 136th birth anniversary of its founder Sir Nawab Salimullah with a call for unity of nationalist and Islamic forces to safeguard the independence and sovereignty of the country

Speakers at a discussion organised by the party at the Institute of Diploma Engineers paid glowing tributes to Nawab Salimullah for establishing the all India Muslim League in Dhaka in 1906 and said this event had a deep impact on the subsequent history of the subcontinent. They said that Bangladesh which achieved independence through a war was the result of the adoption of the Lahore resolution of the Muslim League in 1940.

Presided over by Advocate ANM Yousuf, President of the party, the discussion was addressed, among others, by former minister Nazimuddin Al Azad, JAGPA President Safiul Alam Prodhan, Ismail Hossain Bengal of BNP, Mawlana Jafarullah Khan of Khelafat Andolon,

ATM Hemayet Uddin of Islami Shashantra Andolon,Nazim Abeduzzman of BDP, MA Hannan of Jatiya Party, Advocate Nurul Haque and Kazi Abul Khair of Muslim League and Mostafa Kamal Majumder, Editor, the New Nation.

The speakers deplored that t he present generation of Bangladesh was unaware of the contribution of Sir Salimullah to the creation of Bangladesh and the university of Dhaka.

They called for a step to keep Nawab Salimullah in a rightful place in the history.