Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Bangladesh has become a role model for development and its advancement will continue braving all odds.
"The advancement of Bangladesh will continue by throwing ash to the face of enemies," she told the AL Central Working Committee (ALCWC) meeting at her official Ganabhaban residence this evening.
The premier said Bangladesh has made visible advancements in all sectors including education, health and agriculture. "Now no sector of the country is lagging behind," she said.
The mother and child mortality rate has declined, medicare services have reached grassroots, literacy rate has increased and economic growth and per capita income have also risen.
Sheikh Hasina said the country was able to maintain its economic growth despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, sanctions and counter-sanctions due to timely measures taken by her government.
Bangladesh, she said, has achieved the status of a developing country under the leadership of the AL. Bangladesh will start its journey formally as a developing country in 2026, she added.
"If Awami League remains in power, the transition from Least Developed Country to a developing nation must happen," she said, adding that people are the only strength of the Awami League.
"People have kept faith in us as they voted AL to power in the January 7, 2024 election," she said.
The premier said it is very unfortunate to take lessons of democracy and voting rights from the BNP which had initiated the vote rigging and ruined the country's democracy.
The AL is the party that had struggled for a long to establish democracy and voting rights in the country and many leaders and activists of the party had sacrificed their lives, she said.
Bangladesh, she said, has now been considered as a role model for development in the globe due to massive development made during the AL regime.
The prime minister castigated the so-called politicians and intellectuals for spreading propaganda against the country's prosperity and progress.
AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Presidium Members -- Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Deputy Leader of the House Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Kazi Zafarullah -- and senior member Abul Hasanat Abdullah, were present on the dias.
Source: BSS