Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the BNP-Jamaat alliance is saying that Awami League will not get a chance to escape. I want to say clearly, Awami League never runs away. Awami League works with the people. Whenever the Awami League came to power, it worked to improve the fortunes of the people of Bangladesh.

She said these things while addressing a public meeting organized by the district and metropolitan Awami League at the historical madrasa grounds of Rajshahi on Sunday (January 29) afternoon.

Sheikh Hasina said that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed with his family on August 15, 1975. Being abroad, we two sisters survived. I came to the country at the risk of my life only to prevent the conspiracy of Ziaur Rahman with the aim of improving the fortunes of the people of the country.

The Prime Minister said, Zia, Ershad, Khaleda Zia have not provided food security to the people of this country. Awami League has made the country self-sufficient in food. BNP says that if it comes to power, you will not get a chance to escape. I want to say, Awami League never runs away.

It is your leaders who run away. The leader who ran away from the country on bail during the caretaker government, the leader who was sentenced for corruption talks big today. BNP-Jamaat smuggled Tk 40 crore has been brought back to the country.

Sheikh Hasina said, Awami League works for the welfare of the people. What was the condition of this Rajshahi? You think once. She thought about the year 2001. Then BNP-Jamaat was in power. Every day there was murder-murder-terrorism-terrorism-rape. How the BNP-Jamaat alliance brutally tortured Fahima-Mahima-Rajufa in this Rajshahi.

A baby girl was gang-raped because her parents voted for the boat. The country would not have been independent without voting by boat. If the country was not independent, their leader Ziaur Rahman would not have been promoted from Major to Major General. So why is Khaleda so angry on the boat?

She said, they forget it. Today, food is guaranteed, clothes are being worn, people are getting treatment. I have made a community clinic near the house, so that mothers and sisters can walk and get treatment. 30 types of medicines are being given free of charge. Lack of water in Rajshahi. WASA building is being constructed in Rajshahi to eliminate this water shortage.

The Chief Minister said that Rajshahi was neglected all its life. You voted by boat here. We have developed. Development of Tk 10,660 crore has been done in Rajshahi. 4 thousand crores of work is going on in Rajshahi. The works inaugurated today are my gift to the people of Rajshahi.
Awami League General Secretary and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader and other leaders and activists including AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation and member of the Awami League Presidium also spoke in the public meeting under the chairmanship of the Acting President of Rajshahi Metropolitan Awami League Mohammad Ali Kamal.