breaking News : Padma Bridge Bangladesh Latest News 2017
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the image of Bangladesh has been
changed and improved to a great extent after her government launched the
construction work of the much-awaited Padma Bridge.
"The image of the country (before the world) has changed from the day, the government launched the construction work of the bridge with own funding and none would be able now to undermine Bangladesh," she said.
The prime minister was addressing the Kazi Mahboobullah Award distribution function 2015 at the National Theatre at Shilpakala Academy in the capital on Saturday, the state-run news agency BSS reported.
Sheikh Hasina said, "it has been possible as we believe in the spirit of the War of Liberation."
The Premier said: "It has been proved that we could construct such a mega project with our own money."
The prime minister said concerned banks and donors did not release a single penny. "you know well that by whose instigation this happened. I don't to disclose his name," she said.
Extending her sincere thanks to the people for standing beside her in the issue of Padma Bridge, she said there were various pressures on the government and a hell-like situation was created for the two years. "Whether they would give money or not, we promised that we would construct the bridge with our own funding and we proved it that we could," she said.
Sheikh Hasina noted that she was given a threat that the funding of the bridge would be stopped if a "specific person" is not reinstated in the managing director post of a bank.
"I had to hear words directly from high officials of a country that funding of the bridge would be stopped if that person is not reinstated in the managing director post of that bank," she said.
The prime minister said she had nothing to do in this regard as that person filed a case against the government. "We cannot shoulder the responsibility if anybody lost legal battle . . . it's not the affair of the people and for this, the work of the bridge would be stopped," she said.
"I directly said we would build the bridge with our own funding and we proved it that we could that," she said.
"The image of the country (before the world) has changed from the day, the government launched the construction work of the bridge with own funding and none would be able now to undermine Bangladesh," she said.
The prime minister was addressing the Kazi Mahboobullah Award distribution function 2015 at the National Theatre at Shilpakala Academy in the capital on Saturday, the state-run news agency BSS reported.
Sheikh Hasina said, "it has been possible as we believe in the spirit of the War of Liberation."
The Premier said: "It has been proved that we could construct such a mega project with our own money."
The prime minister said concerned banks and donors did not release a single penny. "you know well that by whose instigation this happened. I don't to disclose his name," she said.
Extending her sincere thanks to the people for standing beside her in the issue of Padma Bridge, she said there were various pressures on the government and a hell-like situation was created for the two years. "Whether they would give money or not, we promised that we would construct the bridge with our own funding and we proved it that we could," she said.
Sheikh Hasina noted that she was given a threat that the funding of the bridge would be stopped if a "specific person" is not reinstated in the managing director post of a bank.
"I had to hear words directly from high officials of a country that funding of the bridge would be stopped if that person is not reinstated in the managing director post of that bank," she said.
The prime minister said she had nothing to do in this regard as that person filed a case against the government. "We cannot shoulder the responsibility if anybody lost legal battle . . . it's not the affair of the people and for this, the work of the bridge would be stopped," she said.
"I directly said we would build the bridge with our own funding and we proved it that we could that," she said.
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