POBNEWS24, Dhaka, Apr 17, 2022 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the mega-projects adopted by the present government are moving ahead fast. In the last thirteen and a half years, Bangladesh has made unprecedented progress in all indicators of development.
“We have successfully dealt with the Corona epidemic,” he said. Our mega-projects are moving fast.
We have brought the poverty rate down to 20.5 percent. I am giving electricity facility to 100% people. We have adopted a ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ to eradicate militancy, terrorism and corruption. We have already made Bangladesh a developing country. The Prime Minister said this in a message on the occasion of ‘Mujibnagar Day’ on Sunday.
Sheikh Hasina said, “We have started adopting and implementing the second perspective plan to achieve the goal of sustainable development by 2030 and to build a prosperous and prosperous Bangladesh free from hunger and poverty by 2041.” We have formulated Bangladesh Delta Plan-2100 and started its implementation.
Referring to the historic ‘Mujibnagar Day’ as an unforgettable day in the life of the Bengali nation, the Prime Minister said the first provisional government of independent Bangladesh was sworn in on this day in 1971 at Amrakan in Baidyanathtala of the then Meherpur subdivision. He said the Awami League won a single majority in the ’70 elections by winning 16 and 298 seats, including reserved women’s seats in the National and Provincial Councils, respectively. On 3 January 1971, all the elected members of the Awami League under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took oath to formulate the constitution on 6-point basis at Racecourse Maidan.
The swearing-in ceremony was inaugurated with the performance of ‘Amar Sonar Bangla I Love You’. At this time Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib gave the slogan ‘My country is your country, Bangladesh, Bangladesh’. In his historic speech on March 7, he gave a clear outline of the goal of liberation from the long 23-year rule.
The Prime Minister said Bangabandhu’s instructions were followed literally throughout East Bengal. On the night of March 25, Pakistani troops indiscriminately killed sleeping unarmed Bengalis in the name of ‘Operation Searchlight’. Under these circumstances, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the undisputed leader of the Bengalis, officially declared independence. In the early hours of March 26, the Pakistani military junta arrested Sheikh Mujib and sent him to a prison in West Pakistan. He said a Constituent Assembly was formed on April 10 during the war of liberation with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as President, Syed Nazrul Islam as Vice President and Tajuddin Ahmed as Prime Minister. The Mujibnagar government issued the Declaration of Independence with full support and approval of Sheikh Mujib’s Declaration of Independence.
Sheikh Hasina said the first government of independent Bangladesh was sworn in on April 18 in a simple ceremony in the presence of more than 100 local and foreign journalists at Amrakan in Baidyanathtala, Meherpur. Besides, the declaration of independence was approved on this day. Meherpur became the capital of the Provisional Government and from that day the place came to be known as ‘Mujibnagar’. He said that within two hours of the Mujibnagar government’s formalities, the Pakistan Air Force bombed and attacked and captured Meherpur. As a result, the Provisional Government was forced to take refuge in India and continue its activities from there. The final victory was achieved on 16 December through 9 months of armed struggle and independent-sovereign Bangladesh was established.
The Prime Minister said the Father of the Nation had formulated a constitution in just 9 months giving priority to the fundamental rights of the people. Within three and a half years, he had transformed a war-torn country into a least developed country. Unfortunately, on 15th August, 1975, the freedom fighters brutally killed the father of the nation and his family. On November 3, four national leaders were also brutally killed in prison. After that for 21 long years there was no democracy in Bangladesh.
The Prime Minister said, “Since the formation of the government in 1996, we have tried the murder of the father of the nation and four national leaders. Later, after the reconstitution of the government in 2009, we established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and tried war criminals and war criminals. ”
Calling on the people to uphold the great ideals of the Father of the Nation and the spirit of the War of Liberation on the 51st anniversary of Mujibnagar Day, he said, ”
Sheikh Hasina fondly remembers the architect of independent Bangladesh, the greatest Bengali of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and gratefully remembers the four national leaders who led the liberation war – Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Mansur Ali and Abul Hasnat Mohammad Kamaruzzaman. In the message, he paid homage to the memory of 3 million martyrs and 2 lakh tortured mothers and sisters of the liberation war and wished overall success to all the programs taken on the occasion of the day.
Source: Bass.
