Govt to step into fifth year for second term with significant achievements

The present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to step into the fifth and the last year of its successive second term in office with steering the nation toward achieving significant progress in economy, infrastructure, diplomacy, national security and overall development. 

The leadership and achievements of the Prime Minister in the past four years also drew global accolades like "Mother of Humanity" and "New Star of the East" for setting up a unique example of humanity and peace by providing shelter to thousands of Rohingya who fled the "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" in their homeland Myanmar.

On January 12 in 2014, the Awami League that led the nation's War of Independence in 1971 under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, formed the government for the second consecutive term after a landslide victory in the election to the 10th Jatiya Sangsad.

Under the premier's dynamic stewardship, Bangladesh last year witnessed stunning successes in infrastructure development, poverty alleviation, power generation, nutrition, maternal and child health, primary education, women empowerment etc. 

In every aspect of socioeconomic indicator, the country has earned impressive achievements and is now marching ahead with attaining continuous growth, raising per capita income, implementing mega projects. 

The British media called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the "Mother of Humanity" for Bangladesh's stand on the Rohingya issue.

"Thousands of poor and tortured people mostly female and children saw how big Sheikh Hasina's heart (is)," Channel 4 said in its report.

Khaleej Times, a leading daily of the Middle East, dubbed Sheikh Hasina as the "New Star of the East" for her humane approach to address the Rohingya crisis.

The Bangladesh Prime Minister is the new star of the East for her compassion and empathy in opening the border to save thousands of fleeing Rohingya, eminent journalist and Khaleej Times' opinion editor Allan Jacob wrote in an article headlined "Sheikh Hasina knows the art of compassion" on September 30.

Academics of renowned universities of the world described Sheikh Hasina as an "ambassador of global peace" and the "main leader of the humanitarian world" saying that she acted with unprecedented humane instincts for the sake of humanity and tried to mitigate sufferings of the victims of one of world's worst persecution happening outside the Bangladesh's border.

David Hampton, the dean of the Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University, thinks that Bangladesh under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina has given new dimensions to peace on the Rohingya issue.

Dr. Henrik Urdal, the head of Peace and Research Institute under the Australian National University in Canberra, believes that Sheikh Hasina should be the leader of world peace for her contribution to the establishment of world peace.

The international community highly praised the Bangladesh prime minister's address to the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 21 where she placed five-point proposal to solve the protracted Rohingya crisis. 

Source: bss