Awami League has announced the 2020-21 year as the ‘Mujib Year’ to celebrate the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as well as the golden jubilee of the birth of Bangladesh.
Ruling AL President, also Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina made the announcement in a joint meeting of the party’s advisory council and central working committee on Friday (Jul 6).
PM Hasina said, “Mujib Barsho’ will be celebrated from Mar 17, 2020 to Mar 26, 2021 and all national and party’s day will also be observer in festive manner.”
“The government will also observe the ‘Mujib Year’ at each ward, union parisad across the country,” she said.
Hasina said said, “We want to celebrate the birth centenary in a massive way, involving children, juveniles, youths and elderly people. Separate programmes including essay writing and cultural completions would be arranged from central to union levels for different groups of people.”
The Prime Minister also lambasted the section of people who are telling against Bangladesh’s graduation as a developing country from the status of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), BSS reports.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh was not born to survive as a poverty stricken country and it was not the spirit of the War of Independence. Rather, the Father of the Nation used to tell that ‘a bagging nation has no dignity’.
“So, we always wanted to build our country as a prosperous one to stand in world comity raising our head high,” she said, adding that Awami League is striving to materialize the dream of Bangabandhu since assuming power in 1996 after 21 years of his brutal killing.
“Bangladesh is now moving ahead on the development highway. We want to make our country self-reliant in food and fulfill the basic needs of the people. We also want to build a modern and knowledgeable nation, illuminate every house with the power of education,” she said.
“The global community has recognized our elevation as a developing country. But, unfortunately, a group of people, who want the people of Bangladesh to live under poverty forever, never liked this graduation,” Sheikh Hasina added.
In fact, Bangladesh’s emergence as a stronger economy is affecting their high rate business of credit. Common people, particularly of rural areas, are enjoying the benefit of development. That’s why the vested group who ‘suck blood’ of people with high credit rate, would never like the country’s graduation as a developing country, she said.
Highlighting the steps taken by her government for socio-economic development of the country, the prime minister said Bangladesh would be a middle income country by 2021 and a developed country by 2041.