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Mentioning her exile life after the assassination of Bangabandhu, the
prime minister said: “When we were outside of the country at that time, we
had to hear that Bangladesh means as a country of famine, cyclone and tidal
surge. Negative comments were made in the case of Bangladesh and for this I
felt pain … it cannot happen.”
Sheikh Hasina said the nation earned independence through shedding blood
and great liberation war. “We’re victorious nation. We want to move keeping
our head high and the people will move with dignity.”
The premier said she is working relentlessly to develop the country and
bring smiles on the faces of the common people. “I am doing labour restlessly
not looking at any side so that everybody gets education, medicare and a
beautiful life and none remains homeless which were dream of my father and
which he wanted time and again,” she said.
She added: “Becoming penniless and losing everything, I’ve come to work
for the country … I’m working for an ideology as my father and mother
struggled their entire life and they liberated the country with an aim to
bring smiles on the faces of the distressed people.”
“It will be my biggest achievement if I can a little work for them and
there is nothing to get beyond this,” she said.
Referring to the proposals of different quarters including the road
transport and bridges minister for naming the Padma Bridge after her (the
PM), the prime minister said the name of the bridge will remain as the Padma
Bridge and there is no need to include any other name in it.
“We’re constructing the bridge with our own fund. The bridge is now
visible … as so many things happened with the bridge, its name will remain
as the Padma Bridge and there is no necessity to add any other name to it,”
she said.
Sheikh Hasina said there is nothing to be angry or anguished here. “I
don’t want name … I don’t want anything,” she said.
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