DHAKA, Mar 08, 2019 (BSS) – Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today said Bangladesh has become a role model of women development under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“Following the footsteps of the pioneers of women liberation, the country’s women are going forward overcoming all the obstacles,” she told a function at International Mother Language Institute in the capital.
Begum Badrunnesa Ahmed Trust arranged the function marking the International Women’s Day.
Speaking as the chief guest, Shirin Sharmin said women participation is visible today in the country’s all sectors, while they are moving ahead fast.
“The Prime Minister’s contribution in developing enlightened women will remain as a milestone,” she said.
Recalling the women’s contribution to the national development, the speaker said Begum Rokeya, Sufia Kamal and Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib had worked for women’s liberation and building enlightened women.
Begum Badrunnessa Ahmed had played an important role in women empowerment by uniting them in a short time, she said, hoping that Begum Badrunnesa Ahmed Trust would play an important role in this field.
The country’s first female deputy leader of parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, its first women speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, first female home minister Sahara Khatun, first women foreign minister and education minister Dr Dipu Moni and first female major general of Bangladesh Army Dr Susane Giti were honoured at the function.
National professor Dr Anisuzzaman, Begum Badrunnesa Ahmed Trust chairman Prof Dr Nasreen Ahmad, its trustee freedom fighter Mahfuza Khanam, and Bangla Records chairman and former IG Prison Sayed Iftekhar Uddin, among others, spoke on the occasion.