Talents of youth should be used: PM

Prime Minister and also Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has said that the talents and strengths of the youth should be utilized for the development of the country.

She was speaking at the seventh national council of the Jubo League at Suhrawardy Ufyan in the capital on Saturday afternoon.

Hasina has inaugurated the 7th national council of the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League amid festivity and fanfare.

The premier opened the council by hoisting the national flag, releasing pigeons and balloons at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the city at 11am on Saturday.

As many as 28,000 councilors from 77 organising districts across the country are taking part in the triennial national congress of the Jubo League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League (AL).

The new leaders of Jubo League will be elected at council session at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) auditorium in the city in the afternoon.

Shahid Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani was the founding chairman of the youth organization Bangladesh Awami Jubo League.

He found the organization on November 11 in 1972 at the directive of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.