Sheikh Hasina requests casting votes for ‘Boat’

DE Online Report
Ruling Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday requested all voters to go to the polling centres early in the morning on January 7 and cast their ballots for ‘boat’ in Bangladesh’s next general election to let her party serve them again.
Please go to the polling centres early morning with other voters and cast your votes for boat (the electoral symbol of Awami League),’ she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the Prime Minister, said these while addressing a grand election rally at Government High School ground in Rangpur’s Taraganj upazila.
Her younger sister Sheikh Rehana was present on dais.
“This boat gave your independence and developed your living standard,” she said.
“After August 15, Bangladesh’s people were neglected. Their per capita income has not increased. I have come forward with the aim of changing their fate.”
“Will you cast your votes for the boat? Promise me, please raise your hands,” she asked while the audience raised their hands and chanted slogans for the AL election symbol.
She also said that there were some development programmes left unfinished to materialise the dream of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
These are to make the country free from homeless and landless people and eradicate poverty completely, she said.
‘All people will get beautiful lives, we are working towards that target,’ she said.
She said that no one would be neglected in the country of Bangabandhu.
‘We want to take the country forward. Currently we have got the status of a developing country. Keeping that in mind, we want to make Bangladesh a developed country. This country will be developed only if the symbol boat remains in power,’ she said.
Hasina said that she had no parents and brothers.
‘I have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. But you have to stay well, your life will be beautiful, my goal is that your children will get a beautiful life from generation to generation,’ she said.
Taraganj upazila Awami League President Alhaj Atia Rahman presided over the rally where Awami League nominated candidate for Rangpur-2 constituency Abul Kalam Mohammad Ahasanul Huq Chowdhury (Duke) also spoke at the programme.