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The prime minister said after the assassination of Bangabandhu, the war criminals were put in state power after stopping their trial.
“The country’s non-communal ideology was trampled and economic progress was halted, while efforts were made for 21 years to make Bangladesh a failed state,” she said.
When the Awami League assumed office after long 21 years, the people were able to hear the March 7 speech of the Father of the Nation, the premier said.
“Numerous dedicated leaders and workers of Awami League risking their life played the historic speech of Bangabandhu and uttered Joy Bangla and Joy Bangabandhu slogan,” she said.
Highlighting the country’s tremendous socioeconomic development in the last one decade, the prime minister said the people of the country only get service from the Awami League and the party can ensure their welfare.
“We’ve been able to bring down poverty rate to 20 percent from 41 percent during the time and increased GDP rate to 8.15 percent,” she said.
The premier added: “We want to cut the poverty rate by at least one percent less from the country which predicted that Bangladesh will be a basket case after independence.”
Sheikh Hasina urged the Awami League leaders and workers to work for the welfare of the people.
“You don’t think whatever you got and didn’t get in your life, rather you’ve to think that whatever you served to the people,” she said.
“Nobody can take money and wealth to the grave but earning money is an addiction and the people chase for it like a blind. As a result, the family is destroyed and the children are derailed,” Sheikh Hasina added.
The AL president said the country is developed if anybody is freed from this incurable disease and he or she is devoted to the country and it is a reality.
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