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PM-MAYOR-OATH LEAD 2 LAST DHAKA
Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, expressed her profound gratitude to the countrymen for reelecting her party and giving her chance to serve them again.
She said that the aim of the government is to materialize the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to turn the country into a Sonar Bangla (golden Bengal).
The prime minister said that the government has already announced 2020-21 as “Mujib Barsho” and decided to celebrate the year by reducing poverty further.
She mentioned that the government has adopted Delta Plan 2100 for the future generation of the country and signed an agreement with the Netherlands government to this end.
Sheikh Hasina said that the government is setting up 100 economic zones across the county and already earmarked places for 80 economic zones.
“The aim of this move is to restrict setting up industries indiscriminately on the cropland,” she said.
The AL chief said that after setting up these economic zones, the country will move towards industrialization further with employment generation.
The prime minister said if the country could manage 90 percent of its development budget with internal resources, then there will be mo need for begging for help from others.
“We’ll live with our own dignity and this was the dream of the Father of the Nation … we’ll materialize that dream,” she added.
She said that people under the leadership of Bangabandhu had liberated this country through the liberation war. “So the thinking and spirit of the people of this land should be like that,” she said.
Vowing to build a corruption-free Bangladesh, the premier asked the public representatives to stay alert to terrorism, militancy and drugs as these social menaces destroy a family, society and country.
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