Ruling Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the country’s people to give her party another chance in the next general elections to help establish Bangladesh as a developing country.
The prime minister also alerted the people that the anti-liberation and corrupt elements would destroy all the advancements if they come to power again.
‘I am grateful to the people as they voted us to power time and again and give us scope to serve them. The next general election is knocking at the door. I wish that the people will give us another chance to establish Bangladesh as a developing nation as the country will start its journey as a complete developing nation from 2026. We have taken preparation to this end,’ she said.
She was exchanging greetings with a cross section of people on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr at her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka in the morning.
‘I’m really feeling very happy to meet you on the holy day of Eid-ul-Fitr as you people are my near and dear ones and relatives of my soul,’ she said and added that she had got the love and affection of her parents and brothers after losing them on the dreadful night of August 15 in 1975.
The prime minister said that Bangladesh had got recognition as a developing nation due to continuation of democratic process in the country and stability since 2009.
Bangladesh, she said, has witnessed such a huge socio-economic advancement as the people voted the Awami League to power in 2008, 2014 and 2018 elections consecutively.
‘I am expressing my gratitude to Allah and the people of Bangladesh for voting Awami League to power time and again and giving us to serve them,’’ she said.
The prime minister reminded all that the Awami League was a servant of the people as it (AL government) always served the people.
‘I feel proud being a daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Premiership is nothing to me,’ she said and added that she considered power as a means of serving the people.
The PM said that this year’s Eid journey was easy and peaceful due to massive infrastructure development that included roads, highways, bridges, especially the Padma Bridge.
She welcomed the people who went to their native villages to share the joy of Eid with their near and dear ones.
She said that people were now enjoying their Eid in villages in a pleasant way as her government had reached electricity every household.
The PM urged the people to maintain good relations with neighbours and stand by the poor and needy people.
She also asked her party leaders and activists to stay beside the people in their needs.
The prime minister reiterated her call to the countrymen to bring every inch of arable land across the country under cultivation so that the Russia-Ukraine war cannot create any crisis.
‘We have to grow food for ourselves and export the surplus food to other countries. We have already started exporting vegetables to other countries,’ she said.
The prime minister first exchanged Eid greetings with the people of all strata of life that include her party leaders and workers and people of all classes and professions that include poets, litterateurs, writers, journalists, teachers and intellectuals.
Later, she exchanged Eid greetings with cabinet colleagues, judges, cabinet secretary, chiefs of the three services, foreign diplomats, senior secretaries, secretaries and other civil and military officials with rank equivalent to secretaries.
The programme could not be held in 2020, 2021 and 2022 due to the Covid pandemic.
