Rajshahi, Nov 24 —Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is visiting Rajshahi in her first visit since the Awami League-led alliance rode to power in 2009.
Hasina, who reached the Rajshahi airport on a Bangladesh Biman plane around 10am on Thursday, is set to address a public rally in the afternoon at the madrasa ground.
She went to Rajshahi Cantonment to attend the annual commanders' conference-2011, reunion, National Standard Giving and Bangladesh Infantry Regiment's programmes.
She will then pay her respect to the martyr Dr Shamsuzzoha at the Rajshahi University (RU) campus after visiting the shrine of saint Shah Makhdum.
She is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for the Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Girls' Hall.
Hasina will also inaugurate a 50-megawatt rental power plant in Katkhali and lay the foundation for another 50-megawatt peaking power plant.
Tight security has been in place in Rajshahi to ensure a trouble free visit of the prime minister.
"Around 3,000 members of police, RAB and APBN will be involved in the security of the prime minister," Rajshahi metropolitan police commissioner Mohammad Obaidullah told bdnews24.com.
Rajshashi district and metropolitan AL leaders have already declared a 14-point demand at a press conference ahead of Hasina's long-awaited visit to Rajshahi.
People are now waiting anxiously to see what the prime minister has to say about their demands.
Their main demands include turning Rajshahi Medical College into a university, establishing the Barendra Krishi University in Rajshahi, declaring Rajshahi as a special economic zone, government assistance in the development of the silk trade, building the Ganges barrage, capital dredging in the Padma River, and implementing irrigation project in northern Rajshahi.
bdnews24.com
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