UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday made it clear that Bangladesh will never face an economic crisis like Sri Lanka as her government has been developing the country in a planned way.
“There is no use of making false accusations against us. Bangladesh will never become Sri Lanka and it can’t be,” she said.
The premier was addressing a commemorative meeting organised jointly by Awami League’s Dhaka north and south city units at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here to mark the National Mourning Day of August 15, the day the country’s founding leader Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with most members of his family in 1975.
Hasina, who is also the president of governing Awami League, said her government has been placing the budget in planned ways for the continuation of the country’s economic development.
She said every development project is taken considering its economic return in the country.
“Before taking every development plan, we think how it will help benefit the country and its people once it is completed. We don’t at all think about getting large amount of money as commission from a big project,” she said. “Sheikh Hasina doesn’t take any project thinking in this way (to get money as commission),” she added.
The PM said Bangladesh has been repaying the foreign debts in time. “We don’t eat ghee (clarified butter) by borrowing money. The amount of our debts is not so high that we would fall in (the debt) trap of anyone,” she said.
AL’s Dhaka city south unit president Abu Ahmed Mannafi prsided over the function. AL’s Dhaka city north unit president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman, Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam, north city unit vice presidents Sadek Khan MP and MA Quader Khan, its general secretary SM Mannan Kachi, and south city unit vice presidents Shahid Serniabat and Nurul Amin Ruhul MP and its general secretary Humayun Kabir, spoke on the occasion.
