[ALOCHONA] PM says this is a lesson for BNP

RENAMING MOVE
PM says this is a lesson for BNP
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka, 20/2/10

 

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday defended her government's move to change names of different structures, including Zia International Airport, saying that this should be a good lesson for the opposition.
   `This is a lesson for the BNP and its allies,' she said addressing a discussion organised by the Awami League at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre marking the International Mother Language Day.
   The deputy leader of parliament, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, presided over the programme.
   The agriculture minister, Begum Matia Chowdhury, LGRD minister and Awami
   League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, former Dhaka University vice-chancellor AK Azad Chowdhury, state minister for science and information technology Yeafesh Osman, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya and Mahbubul Alam Hanif, among others, spoke on the occasion.
   The prime minister said that after coming to power in 2001, the BNP-led alliance government changed names of hundreds of government structures constructed and named during her tenure during 1996-2001.
   `Did not they (BNP-led alliance government) think that their government is not the last government?'
   She said her government's move was inevitable, as `those who have not learnt yet are to be taught.'
   Hasina said that the previous BNP-led alliance government changed 200-250 names of government structures. `They are burning inside although we've only changed couple of names. What will they do if we change names of some 200-250 structures? Let them take the lesson.'
   She said that the language movement taught the people of the country how to realise their basic rights. `We will transmit the history of our great sacrifice during the language movement to all countries of the world.'
   The prime minister said that on February 21, she would formally inaugurate the International Mother Language Institute where all languages of the world will be preserved and research conducted on those.
   In this connection, she said that during her previous tenure she had taken the move to establish February 21 as the day for the whole world.
   Hasina mentioned that at that time she had also taken the move to construct the International Mother Language Institute, but later the BNP-led alliance government stopped the construction. `February 21 is not only for the people of this country, but also for the entire world,' she said.
   The prime minister elaborately described the role of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Munjibur Rahman during the language movement.
   She said that only democracy, nothing else, could ensure development and economic freedom of a country.
   She told the audience that `conspiracies are on' against the present government although it came to power through a massive mandate in a free, fair and credible general election held on December 29 in 2008.
   In this regard, Hasina mentioned that despite huge stock in the country, the price of rice is going up. `We provided subsidies defying the pressure of the international donor agencies to have bumper production in agriculture,' she said.
   The prime minister urged her party men to remain alert against such manipulations and be united. `Vested quarters are trying to increase the rice price through various kinds of tricks,' she said.
   She said: `There is nothing more important than gaining trust, confidence and esteem from the people. People sent Awami League to power for the welfare of the country. And we've to work with that objective.'
   Hasina categorically said that there will be no room for militancy and extremism in the country and the trial of war criminals will be held on the soil of this country.

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