Staff Correspondent
The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday addressed voters in Patuakhali and Sherpur through video conferencing from her house, Sudha Sadan, in Dhaka seeking vote for candidates of the AL-led alliance for the December 29 polls.
She listened to the voters and answered their questions during the conference liked through a satellite in Singapore.
The Awami League introduced video conferencing in view of time constraint and to avoid security hazards.
Hasina said that her party, if voted to power, would listen to the problems of people in different parts of the country through video conferencing and to address them.
She plans to monitor administrative activities with the use of technology.
As she talked with voters in a Sherpur constituency, Hasina assured the residents, living on the bank of the River Brahmaputra, of constructing embankments to save them from the flooding. She said her government would prioritise dredging of rivers to keep them navigable.
She vowed to take more development schemes in the most neglected south as she talked with the people in the Patuakhali town.
‘Please cast your vote for the Awami League candidates to help me to develop the region,’ she told the crowd in the evening.
In reply to a question, she said she would take special care of the party leaders oppressed during the BNP-led alliance government between 2001 and 2006.
She said her party would take up programmes to develop the Kuakata sea beach within a reasonable time.
Earlier in the day at a discussion with businesspeople, Hasina said she had introduced video and audio conferencing to address the voters as part of her first step towards her goal of making a digital Bangladesh by 2021 as promised by her party in the 2008 election manifesto.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
