PM wants to build a wonderful Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent, Chattogram: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, “I want to build Bangladesh in such a way so that the whole world looks at it (country) with surprise … this is my expectation, nothing else.”

The Premier said this while addressing a civic rally as the chief guest marking the launching of the boring works of the tunnel at Patenga here this afternoon.

Sheikh Hasina added: “I don’t want name and wealth. My only desire is that the people of Bangladesh to move keeping their head high. That’s why I want to do fresh things so that solvency comes in their (people) life and they can move with dignity.”

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Senior Secretary of Bridges Division Khandakar Anwarul Islam and Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Zhang Zou also spoke at the function.

A representative of China Communication Construction Company Ltd (CCCC), which has been appointed as a consultant for construction of the tunnel, presented a replica of the tunnel to the prime minister.

The premier said she is working relentlessly to develop the country and bring smiles on the faces of the common people. “I am doing labour restlessly not looking at any side so that everybody gets education, medicare and a beautiful life and none remains homeless which were dream of my father and which he wanted time and again,” she said.

She added: “Becoming penniless and losing everything, I’ve come to work for the country … I’m working for an ideology as my father and mother struggled their entire life and they liberated the country with an aim to bring smiles on the faces of the distressed people.”


risingbd/Chattogram/Feb 24, 2019/Rezaul Karim/Nasim