AL govt’s aim is to create, not to destroy, says PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said her government’s aim was to create, not to destroy, ensure peace, not to unleash confrontation and steer the country towards development, not to degradation.‘We’re running the state keeping this aim in our mind,’ she said.The prime minister was addressing a progrmmme arranged marking World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2015 and observance of the 150th anniversary of International Telecommunication Union.Posts and Telecommunications Division and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission jointly organised the programme at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
Like natural calamities, the prime minister said, the people of the country sometimes have to face human-induced calamities and referred to destructive activities unleashed across the country by the BNP-Jamaat alliance without notice from January 5.
‘They (BNP-Jamaat) went for arson attacks, burning people to death, torching buses and trains and houses. They killed innocent people in the name of movement,’ she bemoaned.
Hasina said such movement was never seen in the past. ‘They (BNP-Jamaat) committed such hatred activities which we never want to see,’ she said.
She said her government wants the country’s economy to be independent and alongside development of the lifestyle of the country’s people.
‘We’ve been working to achieve the desired goal.’
The prime minister asserted that Bangladesh would move forward defying all odds and obstacles. ‘We will take the country forward removing all the barriers. We’ll ensure a secure and peaceful environment for the future generation,’ she said.
Held with Posts and Telecommunications Division secretary Md Faizur Rahman Chowdhury in the chair, the programme was addressed, among others, by state minister for information and communication technology division Junaid Ahmed Polok and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on posts, telecommunications and information technology ministry Imran Ahmed.
BTRC chairman Sunil Kanti Bose delivered the welcome address. The video message of ITU secretary general Houlin Zhao was also presented.

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