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PM commits to serve people until her last day
DHAKA, Nov 21, 2018 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed
her commitment to serve the people until her last day with a desire to make
the country a suitable abode for the next generation as she made her current
tenure’s last Armed Forces Day address here.
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and
miles to go before I sleep,” she said quoting famous American poet Robert
Frost at the civic and military gathering at the reception at Senakunja at
Dhaka cantonment.
The premier added: “I want to go ahead whatever dark it is, whatever worst
the disaster is and whatever deep the forest is”.
She also recited from Poet Sukanta Bhattacharya’s Chharpatra in
communicating her desire to turn the country a suitable abode for the
posterity reciting, “Choley jabo, tobu aaj jatakkhan dehe achey pran,
pranponey prithivir sorabo janjal…….. E bishwake e shishur basjoggya kore
jabo ami”.
The English lines could be read as: “I will leave, but I will clear the
odds with all my efforts so long I’m alive. I will make the earth livable for
the children; it’s my firm commitment to a new born”.
Sheikh Hasina said despite many obstacles her government made strides over
the years to achieve the cherished goal of independence.
“Our path was not easy. . . It was very thorny. Yet we have gone ahead
successfully overcoming all barriers over the years,” she said and expressed
her belief that Bangladesh would successfully celebrate the birth centenary
of the Father of the Nation in 2020 and golden jubilee of the Independence in
2021.
Sheikh Hasina added: “Inshallah, we would be able to build Bangladesh as a
hunger and poverty free country”.
The Prime Minister said Bangladesh would not wage any war against any country
“but our armed forces must be befitting to an independent nation”.
“We will not be engaged in war with any country, but we will not spare any
country if we come under attack . . . we will resist the enemy as long as we
have breaths,” she said.
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