PM urges countrymen to keep faith in AL
BSS :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged all to continue keeping faith and confidence in Awami League (AL) in future, saying her party is only committed to providing the countrymen with an improved and beautiful life.
“The countrymen got independence casting votes for boat. Now, the landless and homeless people got houses due to votes for boat.
—So I want to say everyone should keep faith and confidence in Awami League,” she said.
The prime minister said this while virtually announcing 12 more districts and 123 upazilas homeless and landless free distributing houses with lands to 22,101 more families under her dream Ashrayan project, designed and being implemented by her to alleviate poverty.
Joining the programme from her official Ganabhaban residence, she said the country has been progressing socio-economically under her government as the people voted her party Awami League to power time and again.
The premier said the AL government has been able to achieve the status of a developing nation and reduce the poverty rate to 18 percent from 41 as her party is in power since 2009 confronting all the men-made and natural hurdles.
She continued that the voting rights and democratic rights of the people had been snatched away after assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975 and her party had again returned the rights to the people through struggle.
The prime minister said Ershad and Khaleda Zia brought the killers of Bangabandhu to the parliament through vote rigging following the footprint of military dictator Zia who enacted indemnity ordinance to stop trial of the killers and gave them posting abroad.
“We have prepared a digital voter list as none can steal vote again,” she said.
She also said the BNP-Jamaat clique did nothing for the welfare of the people rather they made their own fortunes through unbridled corruption.
That vested quarter (BNP-Jamaat) has still been trying to make the people captive for personal gain through arson terrorism, which they unleashed from 2013-14 aimed at halting the national election of that time, she added.
“We have an opposition party which is only engaged in killing general people, doing arson terrorism to gain their personal interest,” she said, urging the countrymen to remain cautious about them.
