Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed of DOT :
Awami League celebrated its landslide victory in the 11th parliamentary election with a rally on Saturday. Ruling Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on that day promised that her government will work for all, irrespective of political affiliation.
Following the 11th parliamentary election, Prime Minister Modi expressed confidence that the partnership between Bangladesh and India will continue to flourish under Sheikh Hasina’s “far-sighted” leadership. India also congratulated the people of Bangladesh for reaffirming their faith in democracy, development and the vision of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after Awami League won the election.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang extended their heartfelt congratulations to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for this victory. The ambassador highly appreciated Sheikh Hasina’s leadership for development of Bangladesh and hoped that her Vision-2021 will be materialised and the country will be turned into a middle-income one by 2021 under her dynamic leadership.
Ambassador Zuo also hoped that Bangladesh will be able to bring down poverty rate to zero soon due to the farsighted programmes of the Bangladesh Prime Minister.
In a message, the king of Bhutan acknowledged the contributions of Prime Minister Hasina in strengthening the close bonds of goodwill, cooperation and friendship between Bangladesh and Bhutan. The two leaders hoped that the friendly relations and cooperation between these two countries will be strengthened further in the days to come.
Nepalese Prime Minister Oli congratulated our PM on her party’s landslide victory in the election. These two countries will also work together for further bolstering bilateral relations and cooperation.
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas while greeted our PM, she reiterated that Bangladesh will continue its support to the cause of Palestine and will always stand by its people.
(Source: The Independent, 1 January 2019)
Now, that the people of Bangladesh and the entire world have unbound expectation from Sheikh Hasina and the whole nation is looking forward to seeing proper implementation of election manifesto promises of Awami League.
The next five years is very crucial for our country and within this time, our country is committed to achieve the goals set by the PM for furthering the progress of the country.
Our PM was ranked the second best prime minister in the world for her dynamic, prudent and strong leadership that led Bangladesh’s graduation to a developing country from the LDC Group by the “Statistic International,” a Singapore-based renowned research firm. The United Nations Committee for Development Policy on March 15 last declared Bangladesh a developing country as it attainted all the three criteria considered for the graduation from the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The report said that PM was selected as the second best prime minister for her competent leadership, statesmanship, humanity, decision-making and their implementation at the international level as well as being in limelight in international media throughout 2017. The research firm said the prime minister not only gave shelter to the forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar but also carried out a diplomatic fight to establish their rights in their homeland and successfully engaged the United Nations and important countries of the world in this matter, he added.
Our PM has also been ranked 26th in Forbe’s list of the world’s 100 most powerful women which was published in a US-based magazine.
As a representative of youth of this country, I believe that PM would be able to meet up the expectation of people as she has taken up this challenge herself to ensure people’s well being through her leadership. The entire world has acknowledged her leadership qualities. The dream that Bangabandhu had to turn this country into Sonar Bangla shall be fulfilled by her daughter. As a nation, we should also do our best to assist our leader to achieve these goals for overall betterment of the country.
The writer is the Executive Editor of Daily Our Time
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