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The prime minister said her government has been working to change the lot of the people bringing smiles on their faces by making Bangladesh a poverty-and-hunger-free country as dreamt by the Father of the Nation.
She went on saying, “The Father of the Nation is no more among us as he was assassinated on August 15 in 1975. He liberated the country with a target of giving the people a better life.”
“I have been working to accomplish the unfinished tasks of my father since my return to the country after six years of forced exile,” she said.
The premier said that the COVID-19 pandemic has halted all the progress of Bangladesh at the time when the country was heading towards the overall socio economic advancement with reducing poverty rate to 20 percent from 40, increasing the GDP growth rate to 8.1 and the per capita income alongside making tremendous development of the villages in only 10 years.
In this context, Sheikh Hasina, also President of the ruling Awami League, said they have lost her party’s central executive committee member and former Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran due to the coronavirus.
“Grenades were charged on Kamran twice and he survived the attacks. But, this time the COVID-19 had claimed his lives,” she continued.
Despite facing all the odds, the premier hoped that Bangladesh would have to move forward in materializing the dream of the Father of the Nation.
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