Public trust in AL key to government success: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the people's trust on the Awami League has been the key to her government's success into upgrading Bangladesh to a developing nation.

"As people believe us and we also have trust and confidence on them, we could work smoothly," she said adding that Bangladesh today has got the recognition of a developing country. The prime minister said this while delivering her introductory speech at the weekly ECNEC meeting held at NEC Auditorium at Planning Commission at the city's Sher-E-Bangla Nagar.

She joined the programme virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.

She said that the ruling Awami League formed the government through democratic process winning the election by popular votes.

She mentioned that the continuity helped her government advance the country and attain the developing country status. "Whenever AL comes to power we always work for changing of fates of the people. Whatever the achievements we have, it is the contribution of the people and Bangladesh now stands in a position of strength" she said.

Hasina, the eldest child of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, said that she always follows the path and ideology of her father to worki for the country and its people.

"We have taken short-and-medium, and five-year-plans and we have implemented those. Apart from these, we have formulated long term Perspective plans, specified the aim and advanced the country towards that," she said. She also mentioned that her government is implementing Vision 2021, announced before the 2008 election.

She appreciated everyone's cooperation to materialise the Vision and development plans turning the country into a developing one during the celebration of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu and Golden Jubilee of Independence.

"That has been a great achievement for us, but we have to go farther," she said.

Hasina said that to materialise the Perspective Plan the government has formulated the 5-year plans to reach its goal gradually. "For this achievement, the Planning Commission has a great role," she said.

She said Bangladesh had plunged into an era of darkness after the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975.

"There was no democracy and right to vote. The power got imprisoned in the cantonment. We had returned the rights of the people to them through movement and struggle," she said.