Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday hoped that the students of Dhaka University will make an important contribution from their respective positions in building a 'Sonar Bangladesh' being imbued with the spirit of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by 2041, reports BSS.

“The students of Dhaka University will make an important contribution from their respective positions to building a hunger-and-poverty-free 'Sonar Bangladesh' being imbued with the spirit of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by 2041 by applying their acquired knowledge, talent and creativity with patriotism, honesty and devotion,” she said.

“I am happy to know that Dhaka University, a 100-year old educational institution known as the ‘Oxford of the East’, is celebrating its 53rd convocation,” she said.

On this occasion, she also greeted all the graduating students, their parents, current and former students, respected faculties and officials and staff of the university.

About Bangabandhu, she further said that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a young student of the law department of this university, was the first to understand the fact that the state system that was created in this subcontinent following the partition of British India in 1947 was not a safe home for the Bengali speaking people.

Bangabandhu played an active role in building the movement to make Bangla as the state language and eventually became the father of the Bengali nation, she added.

Noting that Dhaka University has witnessed many movements under Bangabandhu's leadership, she said the students-teachers, officials-employees of Dhaka University were the frontline fighters in the language movement in 1952 and the autonomy movement based on the six points declared by the Father of the Nation in 1966.

The students-teachers-officials and employees of this university played a leading role in the Great War of Liberation in 1971 at the call of the Father of the Nation, she continued.

Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan