Keep vigil against evil forces to sustain country's development pace

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the people of the country to remain alert against the evil forces so they can't grip Bangladesh again.

"The people of the country have to remain alert and cautious so that dark clutch (of evil force) must never again grip Bangladesh," she said.

The prime minister said this while handing over the keys of 5,000 government-built houses, "Bir Nibash", to the underprivileged freedom fighters of the country. A total of 30,000 houses are being built across the country under the project.

Ministry of Liberation War Affairs organised the programme at Osmani Memorial Auditorium with its minister AKM Mozammel Huq in the chair.   

Hasina said that Bangladesh is advancing with unstoppable speed and no one will be able to stop it. 

"Bangladesh will be built with the spirit of the Liberation War. We will build Bangladesh as non-communal country imbued with the ideology of the Liberation War and that is our aim," she said.

She said that under the leadership of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the people had sacrificed their blood to attain Independence in 1971.

"This is our country, we have gained our Independence sacrificing our blood under the leadership of the Father of the Nation. We will build this country as the Golden Bangladesh of the Father of the Nation, In Sha Allah," she said.

Liberation War Affairs Secretary Khaja Miah also spoke at the programme.

A documentary related to the project was screened at the programme.

The Tk4,122 crore project – house construction for poor freedom fighters – was approved by the Ecnec on 21 March last year. 

Under the project, 30,000 "Bir Nibash" (houses) for poor freedom fighters, Birangana (women freedom fighters), widows and children of martyred and late freedom fighters will be built for their socioeconomic uplift.

Named as Bir Nibash, the 635-square-foot-houses, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a dining room and a kitchen will be built for poor freedom fighters on their family homesteads.

This project is an initiative of PM Hasina seeking to uplift the socio-economic status of poverty-stricken freedom fighters, widows and children of late heroic freedom fighters.

Construction of each house costs Tk14,10,382, according to official sources.

Deputy commissioners of Narail, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Gazipur and Kishoreganj, on behalf of the prime minister handed over the keys in their respective areas.