Work for nation building: President

President Zillur Rahman has urged the people to engage themselves in the nation building activities from their respective positions by discarding the path of greed and shabbiness.
“Let us turn Bangladesh into a happy and prosperous country by employing our merits, creativity and deeds,” he said at an August 15th discussion at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city yesterday.
Gopalganj District Samity in Dhaka organised the discussion on occasion of the National Mourning Day and also the 35th death anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Commerce Minister M Faruk Khan, Dhaka University Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique and Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman spoke at the function with Sheikh Kabir Hossain of Gopalganj samity in the chair.
The President said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has adopted Vision-2021 to bring smiles to millions of distressed people like her father.
He said the concerted efforts of all people would have to be continued for implementation of the programmes. “Our responsibility would be to transform Bangabandhu's dream, Sonar Bangla, into reality.”
Zillur Rahman recalled that the aim and objective of Bangabandhu's life was to improve the quality of livelihood of the country's poverty stricken people and he always stood by the oppressed and deprived people forever.
“Bangabandhu fought throughout his life for establishment of the people's right,” he said, adding he never did politics for establishing his own supremacy, fame, name and power but for ensuring the welfare for the common people.
The President mentioned that Bangabandhu had led the movements of the 1971's great Liberation War, the subsequent elections, 1966's Six-points demand, 1962's Education Movement, 1958's Anti-military rule Movement, 1956's Constitution Establishment Movement and 1952's Language Movement.