PM urges countrymen to face any situation with courage

City Desk  :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon the countrymen to face any situation with courage as Bangladesh must march ahead confronting all the hurdles like arson violence, reports BSS.
“Bangladesh is progressing ahead and will move further by overcoming the man-made disasters like arson violence alongside the natural ones. I call upon the countrymen to face the situation with courage,” she said.
She made the remarks, addressing a civic rally after inauguration of the newly constructed Ghorashal-Palash Urea Fertiliser Factory (GPUFF), the largest of its kind in the Southeast Asia on the GPUFF premises in Palash Upazila here.
The Prime Minister said she has to move ahead confronting various impediments.
“None can stop Bangladesh’s journey towards development,” she said.
The Prime Minister said the BNP-Jamaat clique has again started the arson terrorism like 2013-14 ahead of the national election.
“They have again stared the arson terrorism. I don’t know when their conscience will rise and will be sensible,” she said.
The Prime Minister reminded all that the Awami League was not able to come to power in 2001 general election despite getting maximum votes due to local and foreign conspiracies.
Sheikh Hasina said the Awami League did not come to the power at that time as she refused to sell gas at the request of America, saying that they will sell gas only after meeting the local demand and keeping storage for 50 years.
“Bangabandhu’s daughter has no intention to come to power after selling country’s resources,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina also called upon the people not to leave even a single inch of land uncultivated so that Bangladesh would never need to beg anyone for food.
She said Bangladesh today is a developing country, which would move forward further and be Smart Bangladesh, having a smart population, smart government, smart economy and smart society.
The environment friendly energy saving and modern technology based factory with production capacity of 9.24 lakh MT of fertilizer annually was built at a cost of Tk 15,500 crore on 110 acres of land.
Of the total cost, the government provided Tk 4,580.21 crore, and Tk 10.920 crore was obtained through business loan schemes from JICA, HSBC, and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Limited.
The prime minister inspected the factory before its inauguration.
She also released commemorative stamps, opening envelopes and a special canceller marking the opening of the GPUFF.
A video documentary on the project was screened at the function.