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The premier thanked the President, Speaker and other concerned for
arranging this special session marking the ‘Mujib Bosrhso’, the birth
centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“I am so lucky indeed” as I could celebrate this auspicious event of
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu who dedicated his whole life for the
welfare of the country and its people,” Sheikh Hasina, elder daughter
of Bangabandhu, said.
The prime minister said the coronavirus has appeared in the form of
pandemic all over the world. Now the second wave is spreading widely
in different parts of Europe and America.
“We have booked in advance the vaccine that is being invented or
that is being researched,” she said, adding, “We are taking steps to
bring it for the people of Bangladesh as soon as it is launched. So we
have made all kinds of preparations to this end.”
About the demand of reopening educational institutions countrywide,
the Leader of the House disagreed with the suggestion of Leader of the
Opposition Ghulam Mohammad Quader, saying: “We cannot put children at
risk of death.”
She said that when schools were opened at one stage in America, they
were forced to close later. Such incidents have happened in Europe as
well as in England due to massive increase of infection.
“Why would we take this risk for boys and girls there?” she
questioned. In her speech on the day, the Prime Minister also
expressed her views on the peoples’ mixed reaction to auto-promotion
across the country.
“I would like to say about auto-promotion, we didn’t have a semester
system before. I came to the government for the first time and
introduced this semester system. Therefore, a result is given on the
basis of the test they have given throughout the year. This is what
England has given, many countries of the world have given,” she
mentioned.
The Prime Minister said it’s not right that an auto-promotion has
caused too much damage.
About a remark of opposition leader about enacting new law
incorporating the madrasa education with the school education, the
prime minister mentioned that her government wanted to bring everyone
under one policy by formulating an education policy as her government
wants the country to move forward.
At the end of her concluding remark, the prime minister made an
appeal to the House to play the Bangabandhu’s the historic speech
delivered on January 25 in 1975 during the amendment of the
Constitution. And later it was screened.
Highlighting some significant aspects of the Father of the Nation,
she said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib did not see his own well-being or
the well-being of his children as well.
“He wanted to change the fate of the people of Bangladesh. His
lifelong dream was to bring smile on the face of helpless and
distressed people and to build a ‘Sonar Bangla,” she told the JS.
The premier said Bangabandhu cherished a dream that a beautiful
Bangladesh would be built as a developing country but it remained
elusive as the killers assassinated the great leader on August 15 in
1975.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangabandhu gave a constitution and he wanted to
bring change in the system during the British period or the Pakistani
colonial system which would not liberate the people of Bangladesh.
“So he wanted to ensure the decentralization of power and very quickly dreamed
of making Bangladesh economically self-reliant,” she said.
The Leader of the House said the Father of the Nation created
national unity with all those who tried to increase production, make
the country prosperous and develop the country quickly.
“Moreover, he wanted to decentralize power at the grassroots as
political change will come into effect from there but the actual fact
couldn’t be known,” she said.
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