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PM-RALLY 2 LAST DHAKA
The prime minister asked the children and juveniles to attentively listen to the words of their parents and teachers and obey discipline.
“We expect that you’ll lead a beautiful life,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina also urged them to flourish their merit and thinking by practicing sports and games and culture alongside pursuing study.
“Practicing sports and games and culture is very much essential along with education to build a healthy nation,” she said.
The prime minister said the aim of her government is to groom the children and juveniles as healthy and flourish their talent
and thinking. “So we’re arranging various sports and cultural competitions for them to achieve the goal,” she said.
Highlighting various steps for the welfare of the children, the prime minister said her government is taking different initiatives so
that they (children) can advance keeping pace with the world.
“We’ve launched satellite (into space) and built Digital Bangladesh… we’re providing computer education to the children,” she said.
Spelling out her government’s steps for development of education, the prime minister said her government introduced pre-primary
education and framed an education policy.
“We’re distributing books free of cost up to the secondary level and providing scholarships and stipends among the students up to the
higher education level… we want to build Bangladesh through education,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the government also constituted the Education Assistance Trust Fund so that the poor but meritorious students get
scope for study.
She also recited from Poet Sukanta Bhattacharya’s Chharpatra in communicating her desire to turn the country into a suitable
abode for the posterity reciting, “Choley jabo, tobu aaj jatakkhan dehe achey pran, pranponey prithivir sorabo janjal…….. E bishwake e
shishur basjoggya kore jabo ami”.
The English lines could be read as: “I will leave, but I will clear the odds with all my efforts so long I’m alive. I will make the
earth livable for the children; it’s my firm commitment to a new born”.
Sheikh Hasina paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu, four national leaders, martyrs of War of Liberation, all Freedom Fighters and the
mothers and sisters who had lost their chastity and suffered immense torture in the hands of the occupation forces during the war time.
on the occasion, the galleries of Bangabandhu National Stadium was tastefully decorated with portraits of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, four national leaders,
Bir Shresthas, photographs of the prime minister and natural beauties of Bangladesh.
Earlier, the national anthem was performed when the prime minister arrived at the reception dais of Bangabandhu National Stadium
at 8 am.
Sheikh Hasina later reviewed the parade by walking and took salute.
She also witnessed the march past of smartly turned out units of school students and enjoyed their spectacular displays on different themes of the War of Liberation.
After the parade, the theme song of today’s rally ‘Nongar tola tola somoy je holo holo’ was performed.
A decorated boat built on the occasion crossed the stadium ground with the tune of the song which was followed by a motorcade
projecting the development and progress of the Awami League government.
Ministers, PM’s advisers, parliament members, dignitaries and high civil and military officials were present on the occasion.
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