AL serves people while BNP-Jamaat destroy: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the BNP-Jamaat clique destroys people’s properties but the Awami League builds to serve the nation as it emerged from the struggle to ensure people’s rights.

“From the very beginning, the Awami League is continuing its struggle to establish the rights of the people. And while in power, we are doing our job with the motto to serving the people,” she said.

Hasina, also the Awami League president, was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the first-ever National Land Conference 2023 at the capital’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre yesterday, reports BSS and UNB.

Recalling the BNP-Jamaat’s movements in 2013 and 2014, the PM said the opposition alliance in the name of a so-called movement burned people to death by carrying out petrol bomb attacks on vehicles and damaged 70 public offices, including six land offices.

The government later built around 400 land offices across the country, she added.

“The entire world, including the developed countries, are faced with the global economic and food crises arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war.”

The premier reiterated her call to the people to bring every inch of fallow land under cultivation to boost agricultural production so that Bangladesh doesn’t need to depend on others for food grains.

“We have to increase our food production. We don’t want to depend on imports anymore, rather we look forward to exporting food grains after meeting our demand.”

Hasina asked the authorities concerned to ensure hassle-free services and make land management digital so that social and family problems regarding ownership of land end.

“Land distribution system has to be digitalised to specify the ownership of land and thus the family and social problems over the issues would be solved.”

The PM said that it is very common in the society that both brothers and sisters deprive each other of paternal properties, resulting in attacks, killings and conflicts. “If a proper land management system can be ensured, the problem would be solved.”

She said her government has taken measures to protect the ownership of land of all people staying at home and abroad.

The premier also launched seven initiatives of the land ministry at the programme, which was chaired by Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury.