Build poverty-free Bangladesh: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is moving ahead with two major tasks -- implementation of the Supreme Court verdict on the fifth amendment of the Constitution and build a country free from hunger and poverty.
She said the defeated and anti-liberation forces had distorted the Constitution after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.
The prime minister made the remarks while addressing as the chief guest a commemorative meeting at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city, organised by Awami League in observance of the National Mourning Day.
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, Presidium Member Begum Matia Chowdhury, Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta, Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif and former home minister Mohammad Nasim also took part in the discussion, chaired by Deputy Leader of Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury.
Hasina urged all to work unitedly, inspired by the ideals of Bangabandhu, to resolve the problems faced by the countrymen.
Expressing satisfaction over the execution of the killers of Bangabandhu, she said: “The nation got rid of the stigma through the execution of the Bangabandhu's killers. We observed August 15 differently this year.”
“I always thought that it wouldn't be possible to execute the killers of my father… nation wouldn't get rid of stigma. But it had happened before August 15 this year and the nation has got rid of the stigma,” Hasina said in an emotion-choked voice.
She alleged that illegal military governments and anti-liberation governments had rehabilitated the killers of Bangabandhu.
“They (killers) were rewarded with jobs in foreign embassies…even Indemnity Act was enacted to save the killers,” she said.
The prime minister said the defeated and anti-liberation forces had killed Bangabandhu when he took up various programmes aiming at economic emancipation of the people in the war-ravaged Bangladesh.
“Bangabandhu could not accomplish his tasks of making the country economically free…together we'll accomplish his unfinished tasks.”
She thanked the authorities of Dhaka University for withdrawing the expulsion of studentship of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Suranjit Sengupta in his speech criticised Leader of the Opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for observing 'fake birthday' on the day of national mourning. He said: “The entire nation hates her (for this).”
Suranjit, also co-chairperson of a special body formed to amend the Constitution, said the name of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would remain in the Constitution as the Father of the Nation.
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