Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) announced its election manifesto on Saturday with 15-point pledges including the development of the national capital and the creation of employment opportunities stately.
President of the party and former member of parliament of Dhaka-17 constituency and valiant freedom fighter SM Abul Kalam Azad declared the manifesto for the 12th national parliamentary election in a press conference organized at Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan Parishad at Topkhana Road in the capital.
To repay the blood debt of the country's martyrs and the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, BNF president urged all to build greater national unity.
“With this unity, a democratic and public welfare-based state system depending on the balanced distribution of resources can be built”, he added.
He said: “If BNF wins the polls, the manifesto said, full freedom of all religions would be ensured alongside establishing a terrorism-militancy, drug and corruption-free society.’
BNF would take appropriate measures to control price hikes and bring the so-called market syndicates under the law.
Overall development activities would be continued, it said, adding that development of national capital and employment opportunities would be created in the state.
Qualitative changes would be made in the education, health, culture, and sports sectors while timely policies would be formulated to involve the youth society in development activities.
Agricultural-based revolution programs would be adopted to bring about radical changes in agriculture side by side eliminating all mismanagement that hinders agricultural development.
