News desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged people to reelect her party in the next general election giving it another chance to serve people and maintain the current massive development activities.
“If you want to see massive development activities, then there should be the continuation of the government. If the BNP-Jamaat alliance, which had grabbed power illegally, unleashed terrorism, militancy, comes to power, then the country’s development will get stalled,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League, was addressing a mammoth public rally organised by its local unit at Santahar Stadium in Adamdighi.
Mentioning that the country’s people got independence, economic emancipation and huge development through casting their votes for ‘Boat', the election symbol of Awami League, Hasina told the huge gathering, “Please cast your votes for ‘Boat' in the next general election, help us became victorious again and thus give us another chance to serve you.”
The AL chief said whenever her party assumed office people got something, but when the BNP-Jamaat took office, the ‘sheaf of paddy' turned blight, as there was food deficit in the country. “There were corruption, terrorism, militancy and looting in the country when they (BNP-Jamaat) were in power.”
Listing her government's massive successes and achievements in various fields over the last eight years, Hasina said her government wants to reduce the poverty rate further from the existing 22 percent and ensure homes for all.
Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif, Food Minister Advocate Qumrul Islam, AL Joint General Secretaries Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman, AL Organising Secretary Abu Sayed Al Mammud Swapon, MP, Bogra district AL President Alhaj Momtaz Uddin, Whip of National Parliament Shahiduzzanan Sarker, Abdul Mannan, MP, Habibur Rahman, MP, Bogra district AL General Secretary Mujibur Rahman Mojnu, among others, spoke at the rally chaired by Adamdighi AL upazila unit president Ansar Ali Mridha.
Earlier, the Prime Minister inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of a total of 17 projects, worth Tk 316.87 crore, from the rally venue through unveiling the plaques digitally.
From the stadium, Hasina inaugurated the extended part of Nandigram Upazila Complex, Shahjaanpur Thana Bhaban, Integrated Education Programme Building for Visually Impaired Persons, Shibganj Upazila Muktijoddha Complex Bhaban, Sicharpar Cluster Village Project-3, 12 Ashrayan Project at Sariya Kandi, Irrigation Programme through Solar Panel at Adamdighi Upazila, District Family Planning Office Bhuilding, 10-bed Mother and Children Welfare centre at Nungola of Barura Sadar.
She also laid the foundation stones of the construction of Khoisha Kuri Bridge on Sariyakandi Highway, Joybhoga Bridge, Hatfulbari Bridge on Bogra-Sariyakandi Highway, 10-km rural road at Sonatala, Bogra Press Club Bhaban and Extended part of Sonatala Upazila Council administrative building and its hall room.unb
