Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League leaders and activists to make the organization an ideal one.
“I want the Jubo League to be a strong and ideal organization being imbued with the ideology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and patriotism,” she said.
Addressing this discussion virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban, the prime minister also said politics without principles never exists.
It was organized by the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League marking its 48th birth anniversary at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) in Dhaka.
Mentioning that the country’s democracy has been re-established through many struggles and the Jubo League has played a significant role in all the movements, Sheikh Hasina hoped that the Jubo League leaders would work for the welfare of the people keeping Bangbabandhu’s ideology in their hearts.
She reminded the Jubo League leaders that those doing politics for making their own fortunes by acquiring some quick bucks would not exist in politics for a long time, while on the other hand, those doing politics for the people’s welfare would survive as it is the correct way of doing politics.
The prime minister also said those who captured power by violating the country’s constitution after the assassination of the Father of the Nation along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975, were busy making their own fortunes and did nothing for the people.
“So, they have no existence in the hearts of people,” she continued.
Sheikh Hasina said similarly, the people of the country have boycotted the BNP though Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman have made a huge amount of money through illegal means and thought the money would help them hang onto power.
Among others, former Jubo League leaders, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, Awami League Presidium Member Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Organizing Secretary Mirza Azam, MP, and Harunur Rashid, were present at the meeting.
Jubo League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash presided over the meeting while its General Secretary Mainul Hossain Nikhil moderated it.
Eminent cultural personality Jayanta Chattopadhyay recited a poem on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during the event.
A video documentary was also screened on the humanitarian and organizational activities of the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League since its new committee took charge.
At the outset of the discussion, a minute’s silence was observed at the function as a mark of respect to the memory of Bangabandhu and other martyrs of the August 15, 1975 carnage, martyrs of the Language Movement, Liberation War, and all the other democratic and progressive movements.
