I’m everyone’s PM irrespective of party affiliation, says Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that every homeless person, irrespective of party affiliation and opinion, will get a home in Bangladesh declaring, she is “everyone’s prime minister.”

“The country belongs to all of us. I am the prime minister of Bangladesh. It is my responsibility to look after every person in Bangladesh,” she said, reports UNB.

She said that there might be difference in opinion or way or ideology among the people, but “I treat every human being as human.”

“I want that every person will have a beautiful life. That is the lesson of my father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” she said.

She urged all including other political parties irrespective of their party affiliation and opinion to provide names of landless and homeless people to the government so that it could manage houses for them.

“I am asking all public servants and all political parties to provide information about any landless and homeless people so that we could give them a house and an address,” she said.

“We will build house for them, give them an address and arrange livelihood for them,” she reaffirmed.

The PM said this while distributing a total of 26,229 houses among the landless families across the country under the Ashrayan-2 Project joining virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.

She also declared Panchagarh and Magura as the country’s first two districts having no landless and homeless people in a landmark achievement under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s home-to-everyone Ashrayan project.

She announced that a total of 52 upazilas of different districts, including all the nine upazilas of Panchagarh and Magura, as having no landless and homeless families as part of the government’s commitment made on the occasion of the Mujib Year to ensure shelter for all the homeless in the country.

The PM said that it is the responsibility of the beneficiaries to save the houses that has been given to them.

She asked them to develop their respective lives through professional training that the government is providing to them and generate their incomes.