Take the country forward foiling conspiracies: PM

DE Online Report
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the people to take the country forward overcoming all evil tricks and conspiracies.
“On the 54th Independence Day, let’s come forward in unison and take the development and progress of Bangladesh forward,” she said.
The premier made this call at her televised address to the nation on the eve of the Independence Day.
The speech was broadcast at 7:30 pm simultaneously by Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar and some private television channels, radio stations and online platforms, report agencies.
The prime minister said she has tirelessly been trying to put a smile on the faces of the common people by improving their fortunes with support and cooperation from all. On this 53rd anniversary of independence, she unequivocally said that her government has successfully been able to fulfill the expectations of the countrymen to a large extent.
“It is not a hollow rhetorical claim. Today Bangladesh is a shining example in the developing world for socio-economic development,” said Hasina.
She said her government proved that a country can be taken forward with political will and proper plans amid limited resources.
But it is an unpleasant truth that the conspiracy to undermine the independence and sovereignty of the country and to thwart the desire for economic emancipation has not stopped even today, she said.
“The conspirators are still lurking to figure out how to stop the ongoing progress of Bangladesh,” said PM Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League. She said the forces who suffered defeat in 1971 and the killers of the 1975 massacre and also their collaborators are still hell-bent on avenging their defeat.
The prime minister alerted the people that the conspirators will strike whenever they get the chance.
“The only obstacle on their way is Awami League. If AL can be annihilated or weakened by any trick, the rise of the defeated forces is inevitable. So, be careful,” she urged. The PM said the AL government runs the country following “Friendship to all malice towards none,’ the foreign policy dictum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“We’ve no master rather we’ve friends,” she said, adding that the Bengali nation will never be browbeaten by any one. Noting that AL formed the government for the fourth time in a row by gaining an absolute majority in the January 7 parliamentary elections, the AL president extended her thanks and gratitude to the people for keeping confidence in her party.