News Desk :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Bangladesh will be governed as per the ideological speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that he had delivered on his historic Homecoming Day in 1972.
“The Father of the Nation on his Homecoming Day on January 10, 1972 delivered his policymaking speech and ideological directives for governing the country. We’ve to go ahead with that ideology; we’ve to advance the country with that. And the pace of development in Bangladesh must not be stalled, no matterwhat,” she said. Sheikh Hasina said this while addressing a discussion meeting here, marking the historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports UNB. Awami League arranged the discussion at its Bangabandhu Avenue central office.
AL President Sheikh Hasina presided over the discussion, joining it from her official residence Ganobhaban.
She said Awami League has been in power for three consecutive terms elected by people. “Had we not been elected by people then we wouldn’t be able to come to power for three consecutive terms and complete 13 years [in power]. This is the reality. This reality has to be accepted,” she said.
If AL remains in power, the wheels of development will be moving, Hasina said, adding that those who had made Bangladesh a place of killers, war criminals and corruption, there will be no place for them in this land. “This (message) has to be clearly conveyed to them.”
The PM reaffirmed her stance that no one will be allowed to play ducks and drakes with the rights of people.
Recalling the tumultuous days during the rule of Father of the Nation after independence, she said some people had written columns criticising the government of Bangabandhu, or created the volatile situation in the country in the name of a movement or scientific socialism.
