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Referring to Bangladesh’s 41st rank among the world’s largest economies in
2019, the prime minister said the country has come to such a place due to the
hard labour of all.
“It’s now your responsibility to advance this position and this success
doesn’t go in vain…you’ll have to take steps by understanding and knowing all
things,” she told the new ministers.
The AL president said many of the former ministers performed their
responsibilities for 10 years at a stretch. “So, I wanted to bring new
things…in fact, they became over 70 years old,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said: “I want to present a new generation so that they can
receive training and learn new things”.
The prime minister also mentioned that she wanted to make ministers from
those districts where there was no minister in the past. “We accounted that
there are some districts which had no ministers in 1996, 2008 and 2014
cabinets of our government…so I tried to appoint ministers from those
districts.”
She said although it is a common perception that the areas which have
ministers witness more development, the Awami League government made equal
development of the country’s all the areas. “We didn’t deprive anyone,”
Sheikh Hasina said.
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