BD enjoys yields of Bangabandhu’s farsighted development policies

BSS :
Bangladesh is now enjoying the yields of development policies, plans and initiatives taken by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu in all sectors, including foreign policy, agriculture, education, health and technology, said academics.
 “When Bangabandhu was assassinated in 1975, Bangladesh’s per capital income was highest in South Asia, higher than China and Malaysia, which proves how efficiently Bangabandhu took each plan and policy to take a war-ravaged country to that position within just three and a half years” noted academician Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique said.
 Talking to BSS on the eve of Bangabandhu’s 103rd birth anniversary, Prof Arefin said it was very difficult to take per capita income to that level within the short span of time facing a number of challenges.
“Had Bangabandhu been alive and kept running the state that way, what would be the country’s position?” he said.  
He said Bangabandhu had regarded poverty alleviation as his foremost task as he identified poverty as the key enemy in new-born war-ravaged Bangladesh.
 “After the independence, Bangabandhu found poverty as the main enemy of the country. Bangabandhu believed poverty should be eradicated at first to reach the yields of independence to all,” he said.
 He added: “Bangabandhu believed that peace should prevail in Bangladesh as well as the entire world for poverty alleviation. Without establishing peace in the entire world, poverty cannot be eradicated”.
 Prof Arefin, also Dhaka University former vice-chancellor, said as Bangabandhu believed in culture of peace, he had introduced “Friendship to all, malice towards none” in his foreign policy.
 Following this policy, Bangabandhu addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 25th September 1974 where he emphasized the need for establishing the World Peace and realizing human emancipation, he added.
 In December 2022, Bangabandhu’s historic quote – “Friendship to all, malice towards none” – was incorporated in the 14th paragraph of the UNGA resolution entitled “International Year of Dialogue as a Guarantee of Peace, 2023”.
Writer and historian Professor Muntasir Mamoon said Bangabandhu had established the foundation of today’s Bangladesh as he formulated a huge number of laws and policies, the acts of all corporations and autonomous institutions, including the Dhaka University, during his three and a half years government tenure.