Working to make people true source of all power: CA

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said the interim government wants to build Bangladesh in such a way that the people become the true source of all power.
The chief adviser was addressing a reception accorded to the gallantry award-winning freedom fighters and their inheritors arranged by the Armed Forces Division in Dhaka Cantonment’s Multipurpose Complex on the Armed Forces Day.
“We want to establish the idea that we are all equal. None is above anyone and none is below anyone in national life,” he said.
He also said his government’s responsibility is to bind people into a larger family.
“There will be differences of opinion in the family… but we will not be enemies to each other. We will not think of anyone as enemy because of his or her opinion. We will not consider anyone as enemy because of religion,” he added.
Recalling the contribution of the armed forces to the Great War of Liberation, Prof Yunus said on this day in 1971, the valiant members of the armed forces and the common people of Bangladesh jointly launched a coordinated attack on the Pakistani occupation forces.
As a result, the country’s victory was achieved and Bangladesh emerged as an independent and sovereign state, he said.
“Today, I recall with great respect all the brave martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the liberation war and I pray to the Almighty Allah for salvation of their departed souls,” he added.
The chief adviser also paid humble respects to the gallantry award-winning and war-wounded freedom fighters and all the family members of the valiant freedom fighters.