<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her Awami League government wants the continuation of the democratic process to maintain the country’s development spree.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We want the democratic process to continue in the country. As the democratic process is going on we have been able to develop the country and we have attained the status of a developing nation,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said this while inaugurating a new office for officers of the Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat at the Parliament Bhaban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said that the country’s democratic trend is the result of long struggle and all have to keep in mind that It did not happen overnight.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“But for this stable condition it would not have been possible (to achieve these),” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina said the country had to repeatedly encounter problems on its way to progress.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“After forming the government in 2009 we have been in the government till now. We have been able to strengthen our democratic process. As a result the whole country has changed,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM Hasina said Bangladesh witnessed massive development as a stable democracy has been prevailing since 2009.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She told the prime minister that the activities of the office of Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat would be fully shifted to new office compound.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, an archive on life, works and struggles of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the War of Liberation will also be built there by next October, the speaker added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier in the afternoon, the PM inaugurated the newly constructed office of the Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat by cutting a ribbon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The speaker, deputy leader of the House Matia Chowdhury, Cabinet members, deputy speaker, chief whip and whips, Members of Parliament and officials concerned were present on the occasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, the premier went around different sections of the newly built office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On arrival at the new office compound, the prime minister was received by the speaker. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>