PM urges young generation to take country for better future by acquiring knowledge

City Desk :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the young generation to take the country for a better future by acquiring knowledge and practicing science.

The forward march of Bangladesh is not be stopped,” she said, reports UNB.

The prime minister was addressing as special convocation of Dhaka University as the convocation speaker.

The DU organised the convocation to confer posthumous honorary ‘Doctor of Laws” degree on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at a ceremony held at the central playground of the university.

Bangabandhu studied law at the university.

The programme went ahead smoothly despite a dawn-to-dusk hartal called by BNP and Jamaat to protest Saturday’s violence centering the anti-government rallies they separately held in Nayapalton and ShaplaChottor respectively.

Hasina put emphasis on continued efforts in carrying out research works.

“More importance should be given to research works.

We have achieved great success in agricultural research. Today we have ensured food security,” she said.

In this connection, she mentioned that the government has launched Bangabandhu-1 Satellite and is planning to launch the second one.

“Then we have to go to the moon. In order to go to the moon, I have already established the Aviation and Aerospace University at Lalmonirhat,” she said.

The prime minister said that the only goal of her is to build a Bangladesh that the father of the nation had wanted.

“Prime minister’s office is nothing to me.

I could have become the prime minister long ago.

But I didn’t want it that way,” she said.

She said that she believes in using power for the welfare of the people.

“What I’m doing is to develop the country as the father of the nation had wanted to see.

That’s my only goal,” she said.

She asked the educated people not to forget the people living in rural areas.

“The more the rural people develop the better for the country.

The progress of a handful of people is not desired.

It has to be universal.

Our development will come from the grassroots, from the villages,” she said.

In her address the prime minister quoted frequently from the speeches of Bangabandhu on his dream about Bangladesh and his emphasis on agriculture, the country’s history, heritage, literature and culture.

She said that since 2009 the Awami League government has been in power and it has changed the face of Bangladesh.