PM: Bangamata created scope for Bangabandhu to devote to country
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib sacrificed her personal desires and demands in lots of ways to make a scope for Father of the country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to totally work for the united states.
"Nothing could be bigger than sacrificing one's personal desires and demands. My mother set that example," she said while addressing a programme arranged to celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, reports UNB.
The Prime Minister joined the virtual programme from her official residence Ganobhaban, while other participants got linked from Bangladesh Shishu Academy and Gopalganj.
Mentioning that Bangamata had no personal demand and never annoyed Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with family matters, she said, "So, my dad had got the scope to totally work for the country."
Sheikh Hasina urged the womenfolk of the united states to follow the ideology of Bangamata to build a family, an organisation and the united states as nice ones.
Recalling the role of Bangamata in the country's independence, she said Bangamata had taken the proper decisions in a variety of critical times in politics.
"Whenever a matter of going for a tough decision came in politics on various occasions, it is rather sad to say quite a few senior and experienced leaders had didn't take the proper decisions or taken wrong decisions. My mother had taken the right decisions at the right time. Alongside working with family affairs, Bangamata used to care for the families of the detained and ailing leaders, and arrange their treatment," said the PM.
Hasina said her mother used to guide the organisation (AL) with competence (particularly if Bangabandhu was in jail) and give the right decisions.
Matia Chowdhury, MP presented the keynote paper at the function concentrating on the life span and works of Bangamata, held with State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nessa Indira, MP, in the chair.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Women and Children Affairs Ministry Meher Afroze and Women and Children Affairs Secretary Kazi Rowshan Akhter also spoke on the occasion.
At the function, a documentary was screened highlighting the life and works of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib.
The state minister, in her speech, said your day is being celebrated in every districts and Bangladeshi missions abroad around the world for the very first time.
With respect to the Prime Minister, Deputy Commissioner of Gopalganj Shahida Sultana distributed sewing machines among insolvent women and laptops among meritorious students furthermore to providing cash to destitute women through mobile banking channel in the ancestral district of Bangamata.
On the occasion of the birth anniversary of the Bangamata, some 3,200 sewing machines and 100 laptops were distributed together with cash support was provided to at least one 1,300 destitute women.
