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Uncertainty to grip development process unless AL is reelected: PM
DHAKA, Oct 28, 2018 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today feared that
the current pace of national progress would be stalled unless the ruling
Awami League was reelected to power as she addressed the country’s top
business leaders.
“Our past experience is very bitter,” she told the business leaders saying
the country in the past witnessed discontinuation of the development process
with the change of government.
The premier added: “I don’t know what will happen if another party come to
power as the election is approaching”.
She said if people give vote to Awami League again, then it will be able to
fulfill its targets, saying “And, if we even don’t get their vote, we will
also try to stand beside them.”
The prime minister inaugurated an international business conference titled
‘Destination Bangladesh’ at Bangabandhu International Conference Center
(BICC) here on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (DCCI).
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, State Minister for Finance MA Mannan and
President of Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(FBCCI) Shafiul Islam Mohiuddain attended the function as special guests
while Abul Kashem Khan, President of DCCI gave welcome address.
On the occasion, DCCI conferred the ‘Visionary Leadership Award’ on the
Prime Minister, terming her a ‘torchbearer’ of Sonar Bangla and a real change
maker who is an inspiration to the private sector.
“Sheikh Hasina opened the gateway for greater investment and a trendsetter
of transforming Bangladesh into ‘Destination Bangladesh’,” a citation of the
DCCI said.
Sheikh Hasina said in 1996 to 2001, her government had showed successes in
many areas including power generation, improving literacy rate and food
production and many other areas.
“But, unfortunately we found that the country went backward in all those
sectors in the next seven years and the country went under the complete grip
of terrorism, militancy, lawlessness and other anti-social activists,” she
said.
“Two governments — one at Hawa Bhaban and other in the Prime Minister’s
Office — ruled the country when doing business was very impossible for
businessperson without making them happy,” the prime minister said.
After coming to power in 2009, Sheikh Hasina said her government gradually
has brought everything under a discipline and put in force a system to take
forward the country in a planned way.
Now, Bangladesh is progressing fast and many international agencies also
acclaimed the country for the success,” she added.
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