AL's leadership brought country's independence, says Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday said the biggest achievement of the AL, which is involved in every achievement of the Bangalees, is bringing independence for the country, reports BSS.
The AL leader said these while exchanging views with journalists at his official residence in the city after placing wreath at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in city's Dhanmondi-32 area on the occasion of the 74th founding anniversary of the Awami League.
Highlighting the achievements and endeavors of incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for developing the country, the minister said today, Bangladesh has been elevated to middle-income country from low-developed one under the leadership of Awami League president and premier Sheikh Hasina.
The country has also been upgraded from a food deficit country to a self-sufficient one and as a result, Bangladesh has earned a prestigious place in the world, he added.
"For that reason, if you want to write the history of the Bangalee, you have to write the name of Awami League," he added.
The minister said that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib started the independence movement in 1966 through placing the six-point demand.
Following that path of emancipation, Bangabandhu achieved his main goal of having an independent Bangladesh through the mass uprising of 1969, the elections of 1970 and the War of Liberation in 1971, he said.
The AL joint general secretary recalled that the War of Liberation was conducted under the first official government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (popularly known as the Mujibnagar Government), he said.
There, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was declared the president of the new government, he said, adding that Syed Nazrul Islam was given the charge of Vice-President and Tajuddin Ahmed was made the Prime Minister of that government alongside appointing the sector commanders.