Hasina solicits vote for Awami League in Thakurgaon

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought votes for the Awami League on a visit to Thakurgaon.

Thakurgaon Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 29 March 2018, 05:38 PM
Updated : 29 March 2018, 05:38 PM

She has pledged to deliver the people a ‘Sonar Bangla’ if they vote the Awami League in the next general elections.

“I want you to promise me. You voted boat (AL’s electoral symbol) to victory in all three seats here. I request you to vote for boat again in the elections in December this year,” she said at a rally at Thakurgaon Government Boys’ High School on Thursday afternoon.

“Please raise your hands and promise that you will vote for the Awami League,” Hasina said.

This was her first visit to the northern district in one and a half decades.

The prime minister inaugurated 33 development projects and unveiled foundation stone of 33 others at the beginning of the rally.

She called on the people to get Awami League to power so that her party can continue with the development it has done.

“We want development. The BNP in power means destruction, firebombing, corruption, looting, terrorism, militancy. But the Awami League ensures development, peace, progress, education of our children, employment and improved living standards.”

The Awami League chief said Bangladesh topped the list of corrupt countries five times during the BNP’s tenure because Khaleda Zia and her sons ‘looted the country’s money and laundered it abroad’.

“It’s not that only I am saying this. An American detective agency has found it. The money Khaleda’s sons looted had been in Singapore. We brought the people’s money back and spent it for the people’s development,” the prime minister said.

She also criticised BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who became state minister for agriculture and civil aviation after winning the Thakurgaon-1 seat in the 2001 elections.

“He has damaged his vocal cord by speaking day and night. He got treated for his throat problems. There should be a limit to lying. Even Allah gets disappointed if someone tells so many lies throughout the day,” she said.

“What development he (Fakhrul) had done for Biman when he was the state minister for civil aviation? He left Biman on its knees with run-down planes. The radar stations were busted. All the money was looted,” she said.

She said Biman Bangladesh Airlines bought eight aircraft after the Awami League came to power and the flag carrier is going to buy two more planes.

“The airport in your adjacent district Syedpur was closed during the BNP government even though the civil aviation minister was from here. We re-launched the airport when we came back to power,” the prime minister said.