Awami League Presidium Member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday expressed government's firm commitment to defeat and eradicate militants and terrorists under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "The militants and terrorists have to be eliminated forever from the soil of Bangladesh. The conspirators will not be favoured in any way. We defeated the conspirators in 1971 and we will defeat them again," he said.
Nasim was speaking as the chief guest at a discussion organised by Jagannath Hall Alumni Association at Dhaka University RC Majumdar Arts Auditorium marking the martyrdom anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had dreamt to make a Bangladesh poverty and hunger free and a developed country but he could not finish his job, he said adding that the unfinished dream of father of the nation is now being implemented by her illustrious daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
"So, the entire nation has united under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and she will not fail," he added. At a time when the country has been marching towards progress and development, conspiracies have been hatched to hinder the pace of progress, the AL leader said. "We will uproot militants and the alien forces under the leadership of
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina No compromise with anti- liberation forces," he added.
President of Jagannath Hall Alumni Association Panna Lal Dutta presided over the discussion while DU Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Dr M Akhtaruzzaman, lawmaker Pankaj Debnath and AL leader Mukul Bose, among others, spoke on the occasion.