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PM wishes to build a happy, smart Bangladesh on Bengali New Year

She said, "On this auspicious New Year's eve, our prayer is that we can remove all the darkness and obstacles and build a happy and prosperous smart Bangladesh."

On the occasion of Bengali New Year-1430 (Poila Baisakh), the Prime Minister said this in a short video message to the countrymen broadcasted on all media of the country from Thursday evening.

She said that the country has passed another year by facing various obstacles and hurdles. Greeting all Bangladeshis living in the country and abroad, she said, "Subha Nababorsho" (Happy New Year).

Today is Poila Baisakh. A new year has been added to the Bengali calendar. Chaitra Sankranti, the traditional festival of Bengal, was yesterday (Thursday), also the last day of the Bengali 1429 year. Poila Baisakh encourages to build a liberal life-system by avoiding all the narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy. It removes all the maladies and dilapidations in the Bengali mind and inspires us to live with new zeal. Bengali, a proud nation in the heart of the world, this sense of patriotism and Bengaliness gets a new life, is energized in the first year of Baisakh.

When Poila Baisakh comes, the traditional scenes of entertaining each other with sweets, paying the merchant, opening the halkhata take place. Baisakh means crowds of people in villages and towns. One of the accessories of Baisakhi fair is puppet dance, horse-elephant circus, binoculars. Somewhere we see stick games, palagan, kirtan sessions, boats or wrestling in the field.

There are many New Year celebrations all over the country including the capital. To celebrate 'Bangla New Year 1430' grandly, the government has taken a comprehensive programme at the national level. Public holidays. Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University organized 'Mangal Shobhayatra' and cultural programmes. Chhayanat has organized a cultural programme at Ramna Batamul this morning.