Hasina for stronger AL
Starts meeting with grassroots leaders
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked her party grassroots-level leaders to strengthen the organisational activities and reach the benefits of development works to the doorsteps of commoners.
“We have to reach the fruits of development programmes of this government to the door steps of the mass people. We need to strengthen the organisational capacity further,” she said at a view-exchange meeting with the grassroots-level leaders from Cox's Bazar at Gonobhaban.
Hasina said Awami League workers must respect the verdict of the mass people they gave through December 29, 2008 elections.
“You should respect them mass people. We have to re-pay their verdict and confidence that they put on us through development and good deeds,” she said.
Hasina also asked the leaders to strengthen coordination within the party men and get feedback from field level.
The PM will meet the grassroots-level leaders of other districts in phases. AL Central Working Committee organised the meeting.
Terming the previous AL tenure as the 'golden time' for the country after 1975, Hasina said the period of previous BNP-Jamaat alliance and caretaker governments was an 'era of darkness and of corruption'.
She also asked her party members to work for the country and its people with dedication. “Here the question is not what we get, rather it is important what we could give and how we could serve.”
Hasina criticised the BNP-Jamaat alliance government for politicising the administration. She mentioned that due to the politicisation, present government is facing difficulties to step forward with development programmes.
“But we have experience how to work with this kind of people as we're in power in the past,” she said.
The PM said the present government is working hard to improve the image of the country that was tarnished during the BNP-Jamaat regime.
“During their tenure, the country was branded as the country of militants, terrorists and corruption. But, after assuming the office we have managed to improve the image and now the world knows that Bangladesh is not a land of corruption, terrorists and militants.”
She said the caretaker government did one good thing among many evil-deeds, and that is preparing a voter list with photos. “They did that due to the tremendous pressure from inside and outside the country,” she said.
Hasina said due to this voter list the BNP-Jamaat alliance could not succeed in rigging votes.
She sought cooperation from leaders and workers of AL to help implement election pledges and turn Bangladesh into a middle-income nation by 2021.
The PM said her government is working tirelessly to materialise its vision 2021 by building a happy, prosperous and modern digital Bangladesh enriched with science based education.
About the “Charter of Change” and “Digital Bangladesh” she said the government has made significant advancement in this regard including launching of Union Information and Services Centres in 4,501 unions to disseminate information and deliver government services to all citizens.
These union parishad information centres, equipped with computers and wireless internet, will offer various online and offline services to people at nominal charge.
She said locals will get online and offline facilities such as different government forms and information about agriculture, health, education, legal aid, human rights and employment through the service centres.
Besides, internet banking, payment of bills and publishing of admission results through mobile phone are also some other examples of digital advancement of the government.
Deputy Leader of the House Sayeda Sajeda Chowdhury, AL leaders Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Kazi Zafar Ullah and Foreign Minister Dipu Moni were among others present.
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