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Sheikh Hasina urged the countrymen to reelect the Awami League to keep up the country’s development spree and serve the people again.
“We’ve already executed many projects in the country while many mega schemes are under implementation. So, I call upon the countrymen to continue the pace of uplift and give us another scope to serve the people by casting votes for boat, the Awami League’s election symbol,” she said.
The Awami League president also urged the people to reelect her government to celebrate the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 2020 and the golden jubilee of the country’s independence in 2021 amid massive festivity.
“We’ve already declared 2020-2021 as Mujib Barsho. So, we want a scope to celebrate the Mujib Barsho and the golden jubilee of the independence in a befitting manner with massive festivity,” she said.
The prime minister expressed her gratitude to the people of Rajshahi for electing the Awami League candidate as the mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC).
“So I want you to elect the Awami League and Mohajote candidates in the upcoming general elections the way you elected our candidate in the Rajshahi City Corporation polls,” she said.
Mentioning that the AL government has fulfilled all its election pledges in the last two terms, Sheikh Hasina said her party never forgets its election manifesto. Sheikh Hasina she has the confidence that AL will come to power again through the votes of the common people in the month of victory.
“We will be victorious in the upcoming elections Insha Allah as we’ve confidence and trust in the people … we’ve worked for the people with the sense of our responsibility,” she said.
Briefly describing various development projects during the last ten years, she said that once the northern areas of the country were infamous for Monga (seasonal famine). “But there is no Monga now, we have been able to eradicate this by implementing various development projects in the region,” she said.
The prime minister said it is clearly seen that true development takes place in the country when the people vote for boat and Awami League forms the government. “The touch of development reaches the common people when the Awami League gets elected,” she said.
Recalling the BNP-Jamaat misrule from 2001-2006, the Awami League president said the BNP-Jamaat nexus harboured militancy and terrorism and created ‘Bangla Bhai’ at that time.
She said the BNP-Jamaat terrorists had killed huge number of opposition leaders and workers by unleashing terrorism when they were in power from 2001.
“Like that they also burnt 500 innocent people to death through arson attacks and torched schools, land offices, power plants, buses, trucks, CNGs to foil the 2014 elections,” she said.
The premier urged the countrymen to reject the anti-liberation forces in the upcoming polls and said they will ruin the country and halt all development works if they come to power.
The AL president introduced the Awami League and Mohajote candidates of the four districts to the people present at the rallies through videoconferencing.
Bangladesh national cricket team’s current ODI captain Mashrafee Bin Mortuza, who is contesting on Awami League ticket from Narail-2 constituency, exchanged views with the people of Narail from Suda Sadan through videoconferencing.
Besides the candidates, local Awami League leaders spoke at the rallies.
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