PM vows to turn BD into peaceful abode for all

TUNGIPARA, Mar 17 (UNB):  Voicing her high hope that no more people would be burned to death in the name of hartal and blockade, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday vowed to turn Bangladesh into a nice and peaceful abode for all.
"We don't want people, including children and expectant mothers, to be burned to death. We don't want children to fall victims to such vengeance. We want a beautiful future and a peaceful environment for all," she said.
Hasina further said, "We want a developed and prosperous Bangladesh … we'll leave behind a beautiful future for our children through building the country in that way, and that's our goal."
The Prime Minister was addressing a Children's Rally organised on the Bangabandhu Mausoleum complex premises at Tungipara, Gopalganj marking the 96th birthday of the Father of the Nation and the National Children's Day.
Women and Children Affairs Ministry and Gopalganj district administration jointly organised the rally.
Hasina urged the children, teenagers and youths to become true human being after taking education properly, obtaining knowledge about the country's rich tradition, taking part in sports and cultural activities to become good citizens of this country. "You'll groom up yourselves in such a way so that we could move ahead at the global stage keeping our head high."
She said the country's future leadership would come from the children and the youths as among them someone would become the Prime Minister, ministers and assume positions in various important fields.
The Prime Minister said on this birthday of Bangabandhu, it should be the pledge of all to build Bangladesh as a nice abode for all alongside making it a hunger- and poverty-free 'Sonar Bangla' imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation and thus materialise the dream of Bangabandhu.