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Bangladesh
Dudu: Dhaka to be renamed as ‘Zia City’
2017-01-14
[Dhaka Tribune] Dhaka city will be renamed as "Zia City" if BNP comes to power, BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu has said.
Golly.
He made the announcement during a discussion programme entitled "Conspiracy and the government of one-eleven" organised by Democratic Movement held at VIP lounge of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Wednesday.

"Recently, the government has renamed Pirojpur’s Zianagar upazila as Indurkani upazila. It means Indurkani is more befitting to Awami League and Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
," said Dudu.

Moreover, the ruling Awami League government has changed the names of many establishments those were previously named after the greatest sons of the nation, he added.

"BNP, if conquers the national election, would replace those changes again," he announced.

He proposed the government to rename Gopalganj district as Mujibnagar as Mujib is greater than Gopal.

He also pledged to rename the big cities after the greatest sons of the soil including the Bir Sreshtha, Bir Uttam and Bir Bikram if his party gets elected for the next term.
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