Rangpur ready to welcome PM on Wednesday

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will visit Rangpur on Wednesday ahead of the national election to be held at the end of this year or beginning of the next year.

The Premier is scheduled to address a mammoth public rally to be held at Rangpur Zilla School here where she last addressed 12 years ago in 2011.

In the rally, she will inaugurate 27 development schemes and lay foundation stones of five others, including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre.

She is likely to hold a view-exchange meeting with government officials of Rangpur division.

The entire Rangpur region wore a festive mood as the Premier is scheduled to visit Rangpur divisional headquarters around five years since 2018.

Enthusiasm and festivity has been seen among the local leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front and associate bodies.

The entire Rangpur has been decorated with banners, festoons, billboards and posters with photos of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his daughter and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

As part of the preparation on arrival of the Prime Minister, the Rangpur District and Metropolitan Awami League held several preparatory meetings.

Joint Convener of Rangpur Metropolitan Awami League Abul Kashem said that people from all strata are eagerly waiting to welcome their fortune makers Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 2 next.

He hoped that they will gather over one million people in the grand rally.

Deputy Commissioner of Rangpur Mohammad Mobasswer Hasan told BSS that they have taken necessary measures ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to Rangpur on August 2.

"Adequate security measures have been taken to this end," he said.

The grand rally will be successful one and the people of Rangpur will be pleased as the Premier is set to inaugurate 27 development schemes and lay foundation stone of five others, he added.

/MHK/