Our aim is to change people’s fate: PM

Staff Correspondent: Seeking vote for boat, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, “I have been working for development of Bangladesh since I returned to the country in 1981. I am serving the country with the ideal of Bangabandhu for changing people’s fate. Our only aim is to change people’s fate, not for ourselves.”

Sheikh Hasina on Friday said this while she was addressing her first electioneering meeting in the city organized by Dhaka North unit of Awami League on Gulshan Youth Club ground in support of Awami League candidates in eight parliamentary constituencies of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad under Dhaka North City Corporation.

“We have multifaceted plans to build Dhaka as a scenic city livable for every citizen and ensure all civic amenities, development of commuting system and its beauty,” she said.

“If elected we will construct elevated ring-road around Dhaka and the survey is going on for underground metro rail to make the city free from traffic congestion,” she added.

Sheikh Hasina said her government resolved the acute crisis of water and electricity in the capital and the country as well after being elected in the 2008 election.

All roads in the Dhaka City were also in dilapidated condition when her party took office in 2009, Sheikh Hasina said adding that the city was also reeling on the problems of mugging, terrorism and militancy.

The prime minister said the Awami League government after taking office got over the problems one after another. Now the city is free from loadshedding and water crisis, she said.

“The foremost goal of our government is to change the lots of the people of Bangladesh, not making fortunes for ours,” Sheikh Hasina said.


risingbd/Dhaka/December 21, 2018/Saif/AKA