Remain alert against rejected reactionaries
Says prime minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the country's people to remain alert against the rejected reactionary forces who are out to subvert the forward march of development and democracy through conspiracy and chaos.
In a message on the eve of the National Mourning Day, the premier said the killers had killed Bangabandhu, but they could not have killed his dream and ideals as millions of people have been nurturing the ideals of sacrifice of Bangabandhu in their hearts.
On this day in 1975, the greatest Bangalee of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with 18 members of his family, was assassinated in one of the most barbaric carnages in the human history.
While referring to the trial of Bangabandhu murder, she said measures have also been taken to expedite the trial of the killers of four national leaders, war criminals and grenade attackers.
"We must win the struggle to establish an economically solvent democratic and non-communal Bangladesh which will be totally free from hunger, illiteracy and poverty," she added.
Hasina urged all to take forward with bold steps the struggle to build a Golden Bangla as dreamt by Bangabandhu turning the grief of the great loss of the Father of the Nation into strength.
But, she said, Bangabandhu was killed when he had undertaken an arduous task of building a Golden Bangla reconstructing the war-ravaged country and unifying the whole nation.
Giving a brief political scenario of the country after 1975, the prime minister said the anti-liberation forces linked to the carnage initiated the politics of assassination, coup and conspiracy.
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