The prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, has laid emphasis on taking concerted efforts to free the society from corruption for achieving desired progress at all levels.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and niece place flowers at the grave of the founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara on Saturday.
— Focusbangla

‘The BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government has corrupted the country. Now we have to come up to free the society from their corruption’ she said while exchanging views with the leaders of local Awami League and its associated bodies and local administration at Bangabandhu Bhaban at Tongipara Saturday.

Hasina, who arrived at Tongipara by a helicopter in the morning to offer fateha at the grave of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also talked to the cross-section of people of the district and enquired about their well-beings.

Later, press secretary to the prime minister Abul Kalam Azad briefed the newsmen.

When a young man requested her to arrange jobs for those who were deprived of getting job during the BNP-Jamaat alliance government only for being an inhabitant of Gopalganj, Hasina asked them to get prepared to compete in written test for getting job.

‘You will get job proving your talent and on the basis of educational qualifications. We will not politicise any institution like the BNP-Jamaat alliance government,’ she said and asked the young generation to build them as worthy citizens of the country by using their talent and efficiencies.

In these connections, she called upon all to be self-sufficient by reducing dependency on import of goods. ‘You can be self-reliant by producing various kinds of crops apart from paddy and using each inch of cultivable lands,’ she added.

The prime minister asked all especially who are living in the rural Bangladesh to make best use of every inch of land for agricultural production to achieve remarkable progress in the country.

In this context, she asked them to boost fish cultivation in the open water bodies and poultry industry for ensuring balanced development of the country.

Referring to different development initiatives of the government, Sheikh Hasina said, not for a particular zone but for all regions her government is working relentlessly for achieving equal development across the country.

The prime minister directed the local administration to help ensure balanced development of the country to ensure ultimate welfare of the people.