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Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, University Grants Commission Chairman Prof. Abdul Mannan and Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division Sohrab Hossain attended the function as special guests.

President of FBUTA ASM Maksud Kamal was in the chair while Secretary General Prof. Shibli Rubayet Ul Islam conducted the function.

At the very outset, a documentary on the programms taken by the present government for development of the education sector was screened.

Sheikh Hasina said the financial ability of the people of Bangladesh up to rural level has been increased with the development of almost every sector. “We have to sustain the development,” she said.

“If people think it is important to continue the existing trend of development, I hope they will again elect us by giving their vote,” she said amidst claps of audience.

“However, I have already fulfilled my goal to make the development visible like the Padma Bridge,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina said her government has not only taken the country toward economic prosperity but also enhanced country’s image abroad.

The whole world sees Bangladesh differently after her government’s decision on constructing the Padma Bridge with own finance, she said.

Sheikh Hasina lamented that Novel laureate Dr Mohammad Yunus and the editor of an English daily pursued the then US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to ask the World Bank to suspend its credit programme for Padma Bridge on a false allegation of corruption.

“They had launched an orchestrated campaign against us to brand me, my sister and children as corrupt. But their allegations finally proved false.”

“We had to suffer torment and faced intimidation, but never bowed to any pressure,” she said adding that Bangladesh was liberated through a war and the liberation was achieved without support of the USA.

“So, why wouldn’t we be able to build a bridge without their support?” she asked saying that “we have to learn how to live keeping our head high and to build our country on our own.”

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