Time Digital Report: Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina today sought vote for her party's electoral symbol boat in the next general election to give them another chance to serve the people.
" People voted for the boat and got country's independence ... the country's development happens only when Awami League remains in power. Fates of the people have changed, electricity has reached every house and Bangladesh is marching ahead as the Awami League id in the power," she said.
She was addressing the AL's divisional grand rally at Rangpur Zilla School.
The rally venue and its surrounding areas were full to the brim with participation of tens of thousands of people from all strata, including leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies.
The mammoth rally was organised by Rangpur District and City Awami League.
Sheikh Hasina said, after losing her family members including her father (Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman), mother and brothers on August 15, 1975, she considers the countrymen as her family.
"If required, I am ready to sacrifice my life like my father to change the fate of the countrymen," she said.
At the rally, she also inaugurated 27 newly constructed development projects and laid foundation stones of five other schemes involving over Tk 2000 crore.
The premier reached the venue around 3:25pm.
Earlier, she arrived at Rangpur cantonment helipad by a helicopter at 01:13pm, from where she was escorted to the Rangpur Circuit House where she held a meeting with Rangpur divisional government officials.
AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, AL Central Committee Treasurer HN Ashiqur Rahman, Organising Secretary Abu Saeed Al Mahmud Swapan and Rangpur district AL Convener AKM Sayadat Hossain Bokul, among others, spoke at the rally.
Rangpur City AL Convener Dr Delwar Hossain presided over the meeting.
Senior leaders of the Awami League were also present on the dais.
