Citizens won't need to take to streets for their demands if Jamaat comes to power: Shafiqur
“Even if we cannot launch a bullet train of development within five years, we will at least introduce an express train of development,” he says
If Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami comes to power, citizens will not have to take to the streets to press for their demands, the party's Ameer Shafiqur Rahman said today (27 September).
Speaking as chief guest at the annual council session of the Forum of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh, held at the Diploma Engineers Institute in the capital's Kakrail, he outlined his party's vision for governance and development, reports Samakal.
Shafiqur said, "Even if we cannot launch a bullet train of development within five years, we will at least introduce an express train of development."
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Accusing previous governments of failing to create youth employment for the last half-century, the Jamaat chief said, "Young people will be given jobs based on merit. Jamaat wants to rebuild a decayed Bangladesh with the people's cooperation."
Criticising the country's education system, Shafiqur said, "We will no longer pursue an education that drags people down."
He alleged that those responsible for planning our education system send their own children abroad, and that is why the state of our education has deteriorated.
