PM credits AL for robust economic growth

GBNews24 Desk//

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said it was because of the Awami League Bangladesh could attain over five percent GDP growth during the pandemic when many developed countries saw negative growth.

“We have given budget for FY2022-23, when many developed countries are having negative GDP growth, Bangladesh maintained its growth over five percent,” she said, reports UNB.

She said this while leaders of Awami League and its associated bodies greeted her at the Ganobhaban marking the 14th anniversary of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s release from prison.

On this day in 2008, Hasina was released from the special sub-jail set up on the premises of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) Building after remaining captive there for nearly 11 months.

The Awami League president was arrested from her Sudha Sadan residence at Dhanmondi on July 16, 2007 during the military-backed caretaker government, which assumed power in the political changeover of 1/11 in 2007.

Sheikh Hasina said that Awami League always has to step forward defying all odds and hurdles.

She said that whenever she was arrested she sent letters to the people, and leaders and activists of Awami League for giving them directives.

She said that in 1983 she was arrested after her return in the country. At that time she was taken to the DGFI office.

“I never bow down to anyone and never begged from anyone. I got the lesson from my father and family not to bow to anything unjust.”

She said that leaders and activists of AL always choose the right path and she also saw it during the time of Bangabandhu.