Staff Reporter: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged Awami League leaders and workers to take a fresh promise to make Bangladesh as a developed and peaceful country in South Asia.
"Bangabandhu dreamt of establishing Bangladesh as Switzerland of the East. We want to implement the dream of Bangabandhu when the nation would celebrate the birth centenary of the great leader in 2020," she said.
Calling upon all associate bodies of Awami League and party's rank and file to take preparations for grand celebration of Bangabandhu's birth centenary and work together to make Bangladesh a middle income country by 2021 and a developed one by 2041 the prime minister said, "It should be our pledge on the birthday of Bangabandhu."
Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, was speaking in a discussion organized by party's central committee on the occasion of 98th birthday of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Hasina presided over the function held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) at Agargaon here while Awami League presidium member Deputy Leader of the Jatiya Sangsad Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, AL advisory council members Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu, Commerce Minister Tofael Ahmed, advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun, presidium member Syed Ashraful Islam, general secretary Obaidul Kader, senior party leaders Jahangir Kabir Nanak and noted Islamic cleric Moulana Golam Mowla Sugandhi took part in the discussion.