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Tajul for strengthening cooperatives to purge poverty
SANGSAD BHABAN, Mar 06, 2019 (BSS) – Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives’ Minister Md Tajul Islam today stressed on keeping the country’s cooperatives effective to eliminate poverty.
“If the country’s cooperatives could be made operational, there will be no poverty in the country,” he said, while taking part on the thanksgiving motion on the President’s address delivered in the Jatiya Sangsad on January 30, 2019.
Vowing that cooperatives would be strengthened across the country in future, Tajul said Bangladesh would see a revolutionary change in the next five years.
Highlighting the country’s progress that took place in different sectors over the last 10 years, he said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had dreamt of building a ‘Sonar Bangla’, but the nation lost track after his assassination on August 15, 1975″.
The daughter of Bangabandhu Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took over the incomplete task of her martyred father and toured the country’s length and breadth to realise the dream of her father.
“In the past, people faced trouble walking on the rural roads but now concrete roads have come up there,” he said.
Tajul said the Prime Minister announced ‘My village, My Town’ slogan to give priority to the rural economy and enhance the livelihood of rural people.
Taking part in the discussion, AL lawmaker Asaduzzaman Noor of Nilphamari-2 said in the past, there was Monga (work crisis) in the country’s northern region, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina changed the situation creating more work opportunities there.
Blaming the BNP for burning people alive and torching vehicles and educational institutions in the name of democratic movement, he said the government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had taken a policy of zero tolerance to the ‘anarchic democracy’.
Information Minister Mohammad Hasan Mahmud of Chattogram-7 said many people claimed that inequality between the rich and poor had increased in the country, which was not true.
The inequality between the rich and poor had deceased in the country while the standard of people’s lifestyle had increased, he said, adding Bangladesh was gradually moving towards becoming a welfare state under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasanul Haq Inu of Kushtia-2 (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal) said regional cooperation should be strengthened to fight terrorism and militancy together.
He said everybody should remain alert so that militants and Jamaat could not raise their heads again.
Treasury Bench lawmakers Abul Kalam Azad of Jamalpur-1, Ramesh Chandra Sen of Thakurgaon-1, Nuruzzaman Ahmed of Lalmonirhat-2, Sk. Tonmoy of Bagerhat-2, Shajahan Khan of Madaripur-2, Md Mazaharul Hoque Prodhan of Panchagarh-1, Nargis Rahman of Reserved Seat-25, Shabnam Jahan of Reserved Seat-3 and Ferdousi Islam of Reserved Seat-38, and Jatiya Party MPs Masud Uddin Chowdhury of Feni-3 and Rana Mohammad Sohail of Nilphamari-3, among others, spoke.
The lawmakers thanked the President for giving a timely speech highlighting the success stories of the government and guiding the nation towards peace, progress and prosperity.
They sought early recovery of Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges’ Minister Obaidul Quader, who is now undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
Earlier, the lawmakers paid rich tributes to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for his contribution to establishing an independent Bangladesh.
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