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The prime minister also called upon the people of all strata including the party leaders and workers to take preparation for celebrating the Mujib Barsho.
“We’ve declared Mujib Barsho from March 17, 2020 to March 17, 2021 and formed a (national) committee to celebrate the year. I want preparation to be taken from union to every area … this preparation will have to be taken from this year’s birthday of Bangabandhu,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the elder daughter of Bangabandhu, said: “The Father of the Nation gave us independence and the ‘address of our self-identity’.”
“Now we’ve to uphold that independence by building a hunger-and-poverty-free developed and prosperous Bangladesh and we have firm belief that we could do it Insha Allah,” she said.
The prime minister said Bangabandhu had thought about welfare of the common people from his school life and he worked accordingly.
“Bangabandhu’s desire to do good for the people and show them love and affection was expressed in his childhood and he had profound love for his parents,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangabandhu did whatever he wanted to do and his parents extended support to him by giving money and property.
“The name and fame of the tiny boy spread across the world as he had freed a nation from confinement and wanted it to be freed from exploitation and deprivation,” she said.
She said Bangabandhu had a dream of how he will build Bangladesh and present a beautiful life to those who were tortured and repressed frequently and who starved to death after suffering from hunger.
The prime minister said the Father of the Nation provided courage and mental strength to those people to take preparation for the liberation war.
“Bangabandhu gave language to the nation that could not speak due to immense torture and repression and he freed it from exploitation and deprivation,” she said.
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