Politicians should work for country: PM
What politicians deliver to the country and people is more important than what they get in return, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.
"What we got, what we didn't are not a big thing for a politician. Rather what we deliver to the country and the people should be a big thing for a politician ... we have been able to advance the country as we are running the country with that thought," she said.
The premier was addressing a discussion in the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh auditorium at Farmgate in the capital. Bangladesh Awami League organised the discussion on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.
The Awami League president urged the party leaders and workers to uphold the ideology with which the country was liberated.
She also asked them to devote themselves to build Bangladesh as a hunger and poverty-free "Sonar Bangla" as dreamt by Bangabandhu.
She said the conspiracy regarding the Padma bridge project was raised to tarnish her and her family members' image. "My family and I were targeted in this regard. But we have been able to face it successfully as we had power of honesty and it has been proved," she said.
Criticising Begum Khaleda Zia and her party men for stepping onto the main platform at the Central Shaheed Minar during paying respect to language martyrs, the premier said they (BNP) destroyed the dignity of the language martyrs' day through this misdeed.
"They have no respect for the language and they distorted the history of independence ... they also dishonoured the Shaheed Minar…," she said.
Earlier, a one minute's silence was observed as a mark of profound respect to the memory of language heroes who laid down their lives for establishing Bangla as the state language on February 21, 1952.
Meanwhile, second edition of Sheikh Hasina's new book "Nirbachita Probandha" (selected essays) has hit this year's Amar Ekushey Book Fair.
The book comprises Hasina's 13 articles published at different times on contemporary politics in Bangladesh. Agamee Prokashani is the publisher of the book.
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