Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government’s aim was to create, not to destroy, and ensure peace, not to unleash confrontation, and steer the country towards development, not to degradation.
“We are running the state keeping this aim in our mind,” she said.
The prime minister was addressing a progrmamme on the occasion of the 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 country sometimes have to face human-induced calamities, the prime minister said, referring to the 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.”
Hasina said such movement had never been seen in the past. “They committed such hatred activities which we never want to see.”
She said her government wanted the country’s economy to be independent alongside development of the lifestyle of the country’s people. “We have been working to achieve the desired goal.”