Upholding the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that she wanted to see her country free from hunger and poverty.
“We want to see a hunger- and poverty-free Bangladesh, where no people will be homeless and without food.”
She was addressing a meeting with Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student front of Awami League, at her official residence, Gono Bhaban, yesterday.
Asking BCL leaders and activists to be vocal against the militancy, the prime minister said they would have to uphold principle and ideology to reduce illiteracy and poverty in the country.
Hasina reiterated her government’s firm stance against terrorism and warned that there will be no room for
militancy in Bangladesh.
“We won’t let anyone play ducks and drakes with the fate of the people of Bangladesh ... I call upon all so that war criminals, Al Badars and Razakars, and those who killed innocent people in the name of movement, engaged in money laundering and looting, and embezzled funds of orphanage can never get back to power,” she said indirectly referring to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the
Jamaat-e-Islami.
Hasina said assuming office by these elements means looting, embezzlement of orphanage funds and siphoning off money abroad. “So, all have to stay vigil so that those who bring hardship for people can never come to power,” she said.
Citing her government’s development and progresses in different sectors, Hasina said: “World leaders tell me Bangladesh is a mystery in development and they ask me do you know any magic.”
Now Bangladesh does not extend its hand for help to any foreign countries, Hasina said, adding, “We don’t call any country as donor rather we call them as a development partner.”