Put people before profits: HPM Sheikh Hasina urges businessmen

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked businessmen to put Bangladesh and its people before profits.

“There is no Hawa Bhaban and development wing at the PMO to share your profits with,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina was speaking at a meeting with importers and exporters of consumer goods.

She said in the last 14 years during the Awami League's rule, businessmen of the country ran their businesses and made profits without hindrance.

The prime minister said at present businessmen of the country are free from the “pain of Hawa Bhaban and the development wing of the PMO”.

“You are not suffering from that now, you have to admit,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina said that in the past the lion's share of profits went to Hawa Bhaban and the PMO's Development Wing.

“Keep that in mind, and consider the country and its people,” she said.

The prime minister also said that during the Covid-19 pandemic, the government provided stimulus packages to businessmen to run their operations smoothly, even though they did not ask for that.

She said a team was formed through her initiative, and it did well in running the wheels of the economy.

Sheikh Hasina recalled that during the pandemic, many factories and industries of developed countries closed down.

“We said that we will not allow our factories and industries to close down, we have to continue… I ensured workers' wages, gave the stimulus packages,” she said.

- Dhaka Tribune