Lawmakers today urged all to work together to build a hunger and poverty-free “Sonar Bangla” as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and giving democracy an institutional shape facing ill-campaign against the ongoing democratic process.
They said Bangabandhu had dreamt for building a happy and prosperous Bangladesh and his worthy daughter and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was working to turn the dream into reality by upgrading Bangladesh to a middle income country by implementing various development programmes.
Taking part in the general discussion on the thanksgiving motion on President’s speech in the Jatiya Sangsad, they also highlighted various success stories of the present Awami League government in the country’s socio-economic sector as a result of bold and prudent leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The lawmakers thanked President Md. Abdul Hamid for delivering a complete and pragmatic speech in the House in which he focused on three year’s success stories of the government and future programmes to carry forward the country towards development.
“The real picture of year’s success stories of the government and future plan were reflected in the President’s speech that he delivered in the House on January 22,” said Nurunnabi Shaon, a lawmaker from Bhola (3) constituency.
Terming the President’s speech as a complete one, treasury bench member Dr. Md Shamsul Huq Bhuiyan said the President in his speech highlighted all development programs of the government and gave guidelines for building a happy and prosperous nation.
The lawmakers gave a comparative statistics of economic progress of the government with the past BNP government saying that Bangladesh witnessed a spectacular success in all sectors during the Awami League tenure when foreign currency reserve has surpassed all previous record.
Besides, they said tremendous development was also witnessed in economic, agriculture, IT, health, education, power and infrastructure development sectors.
At the beginning of their speeches, they paid rich tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, four national leaders and all freedom fighters who embraced martyrdom during the War of Liberation.
Begum Rifat Amin, Enamul Huq, Abu Zahir and Begum Ruksana Akter Sweety also take part in the discussion.
