PM pledges economic emancipation of nation
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday vowed to build the Bangalee as a dignified nation with economic emancipation freeing it from hunger and poverty and ensuring tech-based knowledge.
"We want to build the Bengalee as a modern tech-based nation, ensuring its economic emancipation. We'll build Bangladesh as a country free from hunger and poverty with technological know-how, to make the nation a dignified one in the world as dreamed by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," she said while addressing a discussion organised by Awami League at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), marking Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day.
Focusing on the history of the Language Movement, Sheikh Hasina said although February 21, 1952 witnessed the tragic incident, the movement for the mother tongue began much earlier.
She said Bangabandhu was sent to jail time and gain for his role in the Language Movement.
"Bangabandhu had been kept behind the bars at a stretch from 1949 to 1952," she said.
The PM said following Bangabandhu's proposal, the State Language Action Council was formed in 1948. This council had called a general strike on March 11, 1948 across the country, she said, adding that Bangabandhu was arrested while picketing in front of the Secretariat.
Sheikh Hasina said it was Awami League which included the provision of making Bangla a state language after its victory in the 1956 general election. "The AL government had declared February 21 as the Language Martyrs' Day and allocated fund for constructing Shaheed Minars," she said.
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