Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today described the appeal of Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech as everlasting, saying that this historic address of the Father of the Nation will continue to energise the world people alongside the countrymen for ages.

“The March 7 speech of the Father of the Nation is only speech which has been keeping up its appeal in the entire world for the last 49 years and it won’t only continue to invigorate the countrymen, also the people of the globe for ages,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina, also the Bangladesh Awami League president, was addressing a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here this afternoon.

The prime minister reiterated her call to the party leaders and workers to supplement the government’s strides to ensure housing for all by the Mujib Borsho.

“We’ve ensured food security for the people and are reaching healthcare services to their doorsteps and giving scope for education. So, it cannot happen that a single person will remain homeless in the Mujib Borsho,” she said.

The AL organised the discussion on the occasion of the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader delivered the introductory speech at the discussion.

AL Advisory Council Member Amir Hossain Amu, Presidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Mohammad Nasim and Muhammad Faruk Khan and former chairman of University Grants Commission and ex-vice chancellor of Chattogram University Professor Dr Abdul Mannan took part in the discussion.

Besides, AL Joint General Secretary and Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, AL Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif, central committee member Parveen Zaman Kalpana, Dhaka South City AL President Abu Ahmed Mannafi and Dhaka North City AL General Secretary SM Mannan Kochi spoke.

AL’s Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap and Deputy Secretary Aminul Islam Amin conducted the function.

Eminent reciter Shimul Mustafa recited a poem of Poet Nirmalenda Goon on Bangabandhu.