PM for making united efforts to build prosperous Bangladesh

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DHAKA, Mar 06, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the countrymen to work in unison for building a secular, hunger and poverty free, happy and prosperous Bangladesh to materialize the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

“Let us build a non-communal, hunger and poverty-free, happy and prosperous country. Establish a ‘Sonar Bangladesh’ as dreamt by Bangabandhu. This should be our pledge on the historic March 7,” she said in a message on the eve of historic March 7.

The premier said: “Now we are implementing the unfinished tasks of the Father of the Nation. We have attained our expected progress in every sector of the country in the last 10 years. Bangladesh is now a role model in socioeconomic development.”

She expressed her optimism that the government would be successful in turning the country into a middle-income one by 2021 and a developed one by 2041.

Recalling the historic March 7, she said on that day in 1971, Bangabandhu in his historic speech at a mammoth rally in the then ‘Race Course Maidan’, now Suhrawardy Udyan, in the city directed the freedom-loving Bangalees for waging a decisive struggle against the Pakistan occupation forces.

Sheikh Hasina said sensing an inevitable war, Bangabandhu also advised the nation to get prepared for the war of independence with whatever they have in their hands.

Referring to the inclusion of the 7th March speech of Bangabandhu in world famous book “We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History” by of Jacob F Field, the premier said that the speech is one of the greatest political speeches in the world according to political analysts.

She described recognition of the speech by the UNESCO as a World Documentary Heritage in the Memory of the World Register as a great achievement for the Bangalee nation and the country.