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time, having served three consecutive terms. [In all this time, I was able to successfully change the fate of the people. I have [dramatically] changed the country. Not everyone will view this [success] favourably,” she said.

The premier sought everyone’s cooperation to maintain the country’s image.

She said movement in the name of arson and blockade has recently resurfaced. “I am not sure who benefits from it. But ordinary people are becoming the victims.”

The PM extended her sincere thanks to the Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) for its initiative to make donations for her relief fund ahead of the upcoming winter season, as it did in the past.

She sought cooperation from BAB to maintain a good reserve of foreign currency, arrest the high inflation, and run the economy properly amid the global economic recession-like situation.