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As the government’s target entails to flourish the merit and inherent power of the children, Sheikh Hasina said, “We have attached priorities on imparting education on modern technology to empower the children to cope with the competitive world.”
The premier said her government has taken measures to keep children away from the risky jobs, saying, “We are imparting education as well as training to underprivileged children such as orphans, autistics and the physically challenged to ensure better life for them.”
Advising the children, who were present at the venue, to love the autistic children, she said, “Instead of neglecting the physically challenged, autistics and poor children, you should stand beside them as they could match with the mainstream of the society.”
The premier asked the children to live honest life saying, “The people who are living honest life possess enough strength inside which never allows them to bow down to anyone.”
Mentioning that Russel had resemblance with Bangabandhu in case of helping the destitute, the premier asked the children to work not only for their own development but also for the people around them.
Describing the children as the future leaders of the country, Sheikh Hasina, also elder sister of martyred Sheikh Russel, urged the children to stay away from all ills of the society such as militancy, terrorism and drug.
The premier said her younger brother Russel was born on October 1964 and the assailants killed Russel on the dark night of August 15 in 1975.
In an emotion-choked voice, Sheikh Hasina said “I have got thousands of Russels through this organization (Sheikh Russel Jatiya Shishu-Kishore Parishad.”
The premier said, “Russel always wanted to stay with our father and used to express desire to go with him (Bangabandhu) wherever he went and finally the minor Russel left the world along with his father”.
“Russel always roamed around our father (Bangabandhu) on various pleas after Bangabandhu got release from the jail following movements immediately after his arrest upon declaration of the six-point demand in 1966 when he (Russel) was only two years old,” she said.
She said that Russel didn’t want to leave his father out of fear of losing him (Bangabandhu).
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