Citing huge enchancment in Bangladesh’s financial and human growth indices throughout her 15-year rule, incumbent prime minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has urged the pro-democratic and law-abiding events to not gasoline concepts that disrupt” the nation’s constitutional course of.
Delivering an handle on state tv forward of Sunday’s normal elections, Hasina stated the Awami League, each time it got here to energy, ensured the financial and social growth of the individuals of the nation.
“Folks’s meals, security, medicare, housing, training, employment and large infrastructure growth is ensured,” she stated in her handle on Thursday as she highlighted her get together’s objectives to show the county into “sensible Bangladesh” by 2041.
My request to political events and establishments that imagine in democracy and the rule of legislation is to not indulge and gasoline any idiosyncratic/peculiar concepts that disrupt the constitutional course of within the nation, the 76-year-old prime minister stated, in a veiled jibe on the major opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP) which is boycotting the voting on Sunday for the twelfth Nationwide Parliamentary Elections.
Beginning Saturday, the BNP, led by former prime minister Khalida Zia, has known as for a 48-hour nationwide normal strike.
It has demanded an interim non-party impartial authorities to carry the election, which was rejected by the Hasina authorities.
Over 1,500 candidates from 27 political events are contesting within the election apart from 436 impartial candidates. A complete of 119.6 million registered voters are eligible to vote at Sunday’s polls in additional than 42,000 polling stations, based on the nation’s Election Fee.
Hasina was one of many 18 leaders from numerous political events, sans the BNP, to handle the citizens on state tv, state-run information company Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) stated.
Referring to the first-ever Election Fee (EC) in Bangladesh that was fashioned by enacting a legislation, Hasina stated, We anticipate a free, honest and impartial election. The election fee has been given monetary independence, whereas administration and legislation enforcement companies are vested beneath the EC.
The election fee is conducting the election totally independently. Our authorities is giving all types of assist to the election fee for conducting honest and peaceable elections, she was quoted by BSS as saying.
Since profitable the nationwide election in 2008, the Awami League has been in energy for 3 consecutive phrases from 2009 to 2023.
As she highlighted her get together’s objectives to show the nation right into a Good Bangladesh by 2041, Hasina stated there’s a enormous hole between Bangladesh of 15 years in the past and at the moment’s Bangladesh, as individuals’s high quality of life has improved and other people at the moment dream of a greater life.
Asserting that her get together desires to make this growth sustainable, to enhance high quality of life and make Bangladesh a hunger-poverty-free developed Good Sonar Bangla, Hasina stated: Immediately, I’ve come to you to hunt your vote for the boat.
Hasina identified that the economic system of Bangladesh has excelled in 2023 with a multi-fold progress in comparison with 2009. In 2009, the GDP was solely USD 102 billion whereas in 2023, the GDP will improve to greater than USD 450 billion, she stated.
Recounting the event over the past 15 years, the Awami League chief rattled quantity after quantity: the expansion was 7.25 per cent, per capita revenue elevated 5 occasions, funds dimension elevated 12 occasions and the annual growth programme (ADP) elevated 13 occasions.
The dimensions of the GDP additionally elevated 12 occasions, international change reserves elevated 36 occasions, export earnings elevated 5 occasions, annual remittance elevated six occasions, international funding elevated 5 occasions and the wages of staff elevated 9 occasions.
She additionally talked about poverty discount charges (from 41.51 per cent to 18.7 per cent), ingesting water protection (up from 55 per cent to 98.8 per cent), sanitary latrines’ protection (up from 43.28 per cent to 97.32 per cent), decreased toddler mortality (from 84 per thousand to 21), decreased maternal mortality (from 360 per lakh to 156) and that the typical human lifespan in Bangladesh was 72.8 years.
The AL President additionally talked about a dozen-odd points from her get together’s manifesto for, what she described because the socio-economic growth of the individuals.
Hasina additionally invoked her late father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as she stated, Let’s all make this Bangladesh a Good Golden Bangla and fulfil the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
