Seeking another term to complete the work of the mega projects, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed her firm resolve to celebrate the golden jubilee of the country's independence during the tenure of the next Awami League government, reports BSS.
"Bangladesh will celebrate the golden jubilee of its independence in 2021, and the goal before us is that Bangladesh Awami League will celebrate it and build a hunger and poverty free country by staying in power," she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, said this in her introductory speech at a meeting of the party's Central Working Committee held at her official residence Ganabhaban. The prime minister said the previous Awami League government in 1996-2001 implemented the fifth five-year plan, while the past government after coming to power in 2009 framed the sixth five-year plan.
"Now we're implementing the seventh five-year plan as well as the long-term perspective plan. We have taken these plans to celebrate the golden jubilee of independence by establishing Bangladesh as a hunger and poverty free country," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the 10-year perspective plan will be completed in 2020, the birth centenary year of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujbur Rahman.
"I want that the birth centenary of Bangabanadhu will be celebrated during the tenure of the next Awami League government," she hoped.
The premier said Awami League needs another term to implement the big and mega projects to turn Bangladesh into a middle income country by 2021 and developed and prosperous one by 2041.
"We've undertaken mega projects in different sectors to establish Bangladesh as a developed and prosperous country. To complete the schemes, we need another term," she said.
The Awami League president said if her party remains in power, the development of the people would be made and continuation of power will be maintained. In this connection, she mentioned that the development programmes that the Awami League government launched in 2009 are continuing as the Awami League government assumed office again in 2014.
"The desired development of the country is not possible without continuation of the government," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said that as the AL government stays in power since 2009, the GDP of the country reached 7.24 percent, the per capita income touched US Dollar 1602, the budget for the current fiscal is more than Tk 400,000 crore and 90 percent of the development budget comes from internal resources.
The prime minister said the people of Bangladesh will never face famine and suffer from hunger if the 10-year perspective plan is executed.
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