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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the party leaders and activists to take all out preparations for the next national polls saying it would be a challenge due to multifaceted conspiracies.
"The next election is a challenge because there are conspiracies from various quarters,” she said while exchanging views with the leaders, activists of Awami League (AL) and its associate’s bodies at her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital on Monday.
Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League President said whenever the life of the country’s people is improving to some extent, some black sheep are here in Bangladesh, who speak against Bangladesh and spread falsehood everywhere.
Some people raise misconceptions about Bangladesh before foreigners to get international donations, she said, reports BSS.
She said those who didn’t believe in the Independence of Bangladesh, committed genocide and other offenses including plundering, rape and repression during the Liberation War, their next generations are now relentlessly carrying out propaganda against the county.
Mentioning that vote-rigging is a common habit of BNP, she said they (BNP) have a record of vote-rigging and snatching democracy. “But, we can now hear (the lesson of) democracy from them.”
Hasina asked her party leaders and activists to work to strengthen their party further.
Highlighting the development of Bangladesh, the Premier said this development has been possible as her party has been in power for 14 years at a stretch after the 2008 general election and maintained a stable democratic environment in the country.
“We had wanted to change Bangladesh. Today we’ve successfully been able to change it (the country),” she said, adding, Bangladesh has graduated into a developing country.
She said her government kept its pledge by providing electricity to every house, but Bangladesh is to face difficulties as the commodity prices, transport cost, prices of gas, fuel and coal soared up globally following the Russia- Ukraine conflict.
She said the interest rates of foreign loans were increased, which created a pressure on the country’s reserve of foreign currencies. However, there is still a reserve which is enough to procure food for next five months, she added.
The Prime Minister urged all to boost up agricultural production by not keeping any piece of land uncultivated in the country, in order to meet the local demand and also export those.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
