‘People are the source of power’
President urges all to participate in govt activities to make democracy more effective
President Abdul Hamid yesterday told parliament that democracy needs to be made more effective by establishing transparency and accountable good governance by ensuring proper participation of people in all government activities.
He said this while addressing the first session of the New Year in parliament as the 16th session of the 11th parliament began yesterday.
In his brief written speech, he said the government's expenditure has increased due to huge increase of development activities over the past one-and-a-half decade.
"Therefore, caution should be maintained in all matters related to the project to prevent misuse of government funds," he added.
The full text of his speech was tabled in parliament. Earlier, the House went into the sitting around 4:00pm.
Hamid in his speech said the people are the source of all power and the centre of all their hope is the Jatiya Sangsad. "As people's representative, public interest should be given priority over everything else," he said.
"I strongly urge people, irrespective of party affiliation, class and profession, to take concerted action on fundamental issues like democracy, rule of law and development."