She pledges to promote Jessore to city corporation if elected again
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said no one could say there has been corruption in the Padma bridge project although the allegation of ‘corruption conspiracy’ is there.
“But, during the tenure of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government, the World Bank had stopped funding in communication and power sectors due to their massive corruption,” Hasina said.
The prime minister was addressing a mammoth public meeting organised by the district unit of Awami League held at the Central Eidghah Ground in the district town with district AL president Ali Reza Raju in the chair.
Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, ICT Minister Mostafa Faruque Mohammad and AL Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, among others, spoke on the occasion.
The premier said the Jessore municipality would be turned into a city corporation if her party is voted to power again in the next general election, and sought the cooperation and all-out support of the people of Jessore to this end.
Referring to the recent remarks of the opposition leader that Awami League fears the freedom fighters, Hasina said there is no reason for her party to fear the war heroes as because it was her party that had led the struggle in emergence of an independent country under the leadership of Bangabandhu.
She alleged that when the present government is moving ahead with the trial of war criminals, the opposition party along with Jamaat-Shibir is enforcing hartals and killing people, vandalising vehicles and torching those to thwart the trial.
Earlier, the prime minister inaugurated the National-e-Service system at the Central Eidgah. Prior to that, Hasina inaugurated the ‘Bangabandhu Memorial Mural’ at Bakultala on Garibshah Road in Jessore.
Source:The Daily Star
