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Military rulers spoilt youths to cling to power

PM tells National Youth Day function

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said military rulers in the past spoilt the country's youth community handing them drugs, arms and illegal money in their bid to perpetuate their usurped power.
"The military dictators pushed the young people towards evil paths to satisfy their own perverse purposes. The rulers grabbed state power and used them to cling to power," she said.
The PM said this while inaugurating the National Youth Day function organised by Youth Development Directorate (YDD) at Osmani Memorial Hall in the city.
Hasina deplored that Bangladesh could not attain its cherished development and prosperity even after 38 years of independence as the military rulers did not allow democracy to run uninterrupted in the past.
“Our youths played the strongest role in various democratic movements of the country. including the liberation war of 1971 and the 1952 language movement. We want to bring the glory of the youths back. We want to turn Bangladesh into a modem digital one by 2021 by making proper use of their strength and talent."
Hasina also blamed the last BNP-Jamaat government for widespread corruption in the country that also destroyed the young ones through their degeneration.
“The young people had been used by the rulers of the BNP-Jamaat alliance as an instrument of making illegal money,” she said.
“By the rulers of the BNP-Jamaat alliance, the young people had been used as the instruments of making illegal money," she told the function in a swinging criticism of her political opponents.
The PM told the young community that there is no need to make illegal money banning the country's interests.
She called on the youths to come forward to building a corruption- and drug addiction-free society in a turnaround from the past perversity.
Hasina said the government has taken up various programmes for development of the youth community, as it believes that self-reliant youths can change a country and bring its cherished prosperity.
Awami League's (Al.) election pledge for arranging employment opportunity for one boy or girl from each family of the country and said that, in this regard, the government has already approved National Service Policy, she added.
Under pilot programmes of the policy, youths having higher educational degrees aged 18-35 will be employed under 10 specific modules after three months' basic training.
The PM said temporary employments have already been created by involving the unemployed youths in the nation- building programmes.
Hasina said the national service programme following the results of the pilot projects will be extended to upazila and district levels.
A total of 10 youths, who were successful in becoming self-employment taking assistance from YDD, were given awards by the premier at the programme..
State Minister for Youth Ahad Ali Sarkar chaired the function where Secretary of the ministry Mahbub Ahmed, Director General of YDD Fakhrul Islam and National Youth Award winners Nahid Sultana Tripti and Zakir Hossain also spoke.