The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday pledged that her government would bring qualitative change in the country's politics and would work for balance development for all the people.

The people of the country have suffered a lot during last seven years. We want to bring about a qualitative change in the politics so that they can have three meals a day, she said.

The prime minister was addressing the local leaders and activists at her village home Tungipara in Gopalgonj after placing floral wreaths at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

She told her audience that her government was committed to ensuring equitable development of all regions across the country. Hasina "We will not discriminate between who had voted for us and who had not. We will neither neglect any particular region nor develop any region lavishly," she noted.

The landslide victory of the grand alliance has bestowed on us a great responsibility towards the nation. We have to work hard patiently to serve the people," she said.

She expressed her intention to increase the allowances of the freedom fighters, elderly people and widows and revive the community clinic scheme.

Hasina expressed her especial gratitude to the people of Gopalganj, Bagerhat and Rangpur districts for electing her from three seats of these districts in the December 29 parliamentary elections. "I want to utilise the opportunity and the confidence the people have reposed in me". She said.

Earlier in the morning, Sheikh Hasina flew to Tungipara from Dhaka with her family members by helicopter. She was accompanied by 13 of her cabinet members.

She landed at Tungipara at 11:30 am. An armed forces contingent gave her a guard of honour on arrival there.