Hasina demands JS polls before upazila election
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
NEW YORK, Sept 15 (UNB): Awami League president Sheikh Hasina has demanded immediate declaration of parliamentary polls date to resolve the existing crises of Bangladesh.
"There is no alternative but to hold the national election to resolve the existing crises of the country," she told at a reception accorded by New York Awami League at the Crown Plaza restaurant at Queens here on Sunday.
Hasina said: "What we need urgently is Jatiya Sangsad election, not Upazila election."
She appreciated the role of the migrant Bangladeshis in USA in the development process of Bangladesh by sending foreign currency.
The migrated Bangladeshis took part in most of the emergency situations of the country by raising their voices from abroad, she said.
Hasina said: "I am taking preparation to return to Bangladesh and before that I've come here to express my gratitude to the Bangladeshi New Yorkers.
"I don't know what would be my fate after returning to Bangladesh.
But I am not scared of anything, not even death. I'll always raise my voice for the freedom of the people of Bangladesh."
She said the people of Bangladesh are now suffering a lot due to the abnormal price-hike of essentials. "People even do not have fundamental rights, which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had dreamt to ensure."
Hasina said that she was arrested for raising her voice on behalf of the masses of the country.
"I am hopeful and with that hope I am working to implement my goal 'Vision 2020'," she said, adding that she would fulfill her goal by 2021, during the golden jubilee of Bangladesh's independence, making Bangladesh a developed country by eradicating poverty.
The former Prime Minister said that Awami League was the most popular party in Bangladesh and it was proved in the election in 2001.
"Awami League had won the election in terms of popular vote, but the conspirators forced us to defeat."
She urged all her party members to remain alert against the conspirators.
Referring to the post-1/11 scenario, she said politicians and people were arrested en masse that time in the name of eliminating corruption and now released en masse.
"I'm sure it is part of a plan to establish the corrupt people again."
In her speech, Hasina gave an outline of the party's election manifesto that included several important points relating to the development of Bangladesh.
She mentioned that if Awami League is elected in the next election, her government would work for eradicating illiteracy as well as ensuring food sufficiency, health, education and infrastructural development, local government empowerment and power decentralisation, industrialisation and resolving the problems of the Bangladeshis abroad, including giving them the right to vote.
Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajib Wajed Joy, and other senior members of New York Awami League also spoke at the reception.
"There is no alternative but to hold the national election to resolve the existing crises of the country," she told at a reception accorded by New York Awami League at the Crown Plaza restaurant at Queens here on Sunday.
Hasina said: "What we need urgently is Jatiya Sangsad election, not Upazila election."
She appreciated the role of the migrant Bangladeshis in USA in the development process of Bangladesh by sending foreign currency.
The migrated Bangladeshis took part in most of the emergency situations of the country by raising their voices from abroad, she said.
Hasina said: "I am taking preparation to return to Bangladesh and before that I've come here to express my gratitude to the Bangladeshi New Yorkers.
"I don't know what would be my fate after returning to Bangladesh.
But I am not scared of anything, not even death. I'll always raise my voice for the freedom of the people of Bangladesh."
She said the people of Bangladesh are now suffering a lot due to the abnormal price-hike of essentials. "People even do not have fundamental rights, which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had dreamt to ensure."
Hasina said that she was arrested for raising her voice on behalf of the masses of the country.
"I am hopeful and with that hope I am working to implement my goal 'Vision 2020'," she said, adding that she would fulfill her goal by 2021, during the golden jubilee of Bangladesh's independence, making Bangladesh a developed country by eradicating poverty.
The former Prime Minister said that Awami League was the most popular party in Bangladesh and it was proved in the election in 2001.
"Awami League had won the election in terms of popular vote, but the conspirators forced us to defeat."
She urged all her party members to remain alert against the conspirators.
Referring to the post-1/11 scenario, she said politicians and people were arrested en masse that time in the name of eliminating corruption and now released en masse.
"I'm sure it is part of a plan to establish the corrupt people again."
In her speech, Hasina gave an outline of the party's election manifesto that included several important points relating to the development of Bangladesh.
She mentioned that if Awami League is elected in the next election, her government would work for eradicating illiteracy as well as ensuring food sufficiency, health, education and infrastructural development, local government empowerment and power decentralisation, industrialisation and resolving the problems of the Bangladeshis abroad, including giving them the right to vote.
Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajib Wajed Joy, and other senior members of New York Awami League also spoke at the reception.