Political empowerment of women spectacular: PM

Claiming Bangladesh women’s spectacular leadership in its current parliament, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said Begum Rokeya would have been very happy to see that Bangladesh has been able to partially fulfil her dreamland ‘Naristhan’ (place for women). ‘She had always dreamt of a land where there will be only women, but this is true that one society cannot be run this way…I can tell we are partially been able to fulfil her dream in Bangladesh and Begum Rokeya would have been so happy to see this,’ she said. The prime minister was speaking at a function of Begum Rokeya Padak-2014 distribution at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital, marking the Begum Rokeya Day. The ministry of women and children affairs organised the programme held with state minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroz Chumki in the chair. Hasina said if one looks at the Bangladesh parliament now, he or she would see that the speaker of it, the leader of the house, the opposition leader and the deputy leader of the house were all women.

‘Such a combination is hardly found elsewhere in the world… I do not know whether this will happen again…Bangladesh is a unique example…had Begum Rokeya been alive today she would have been very happy,’ she said. Earlier, the prime minister handed over the Begum Rokeya medals to two erudite women—Mamtaj Begum and Golap Banu—for their outstanding contributions towards spreading female education, ensuring human rights and immense work for the socio-economic development. Sheikh Hasina hoped that not a single girl of the country would remain uneducated as her government created huge opportunities for their education and make them as dignified and self-dependent human resources as dreamt by Begum Rokeya. The recipients of Bagum Rokeya Padak also spoke on the occasion and expressed heir feelings. She said Begum Rokeya’s dream was to develop neglected women as educated and self-dependent and she would last ever in the heart of every educated woman as most of her dreams have now become a reality. Later, the prime minister sitting with the audience enjoyed a cultural programme, ‘Jago Nari Jagao Pran’, presented by the artistes of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.

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