Planning Adviser  Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday firmly said Bangladesh will not be the same again as the previous times.

“This is our firm belief that the future Bangladesh will not be the same as the previous times,” he said while addressing a kick-off workshop on protection of forest-dependent people from forest destruction, plantation economy, climate change and land grab at CIRDAP auditorium.

Society for Environment and Human Development (SHED) organised it with executive chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) Hossain Zillur Rahman in the chair.

The planning adviser said that from the democratic administration and state system he does not think that the country will return to its old era.

“In future we will learn from our past experiences how a democratically elected government be a accountable one in real sense and will fulfil people’s expectation,” he said.

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Otherwise, he said that if anyone wants to remain in the power forcibly without fulfilling  people’s expectations what would be the consequences of that move everyone saw that.

“And that will not be good for anyone,” he warned.

He also said that the expectations of the people should be like that the elected government which will come in the future should be more sensible towards the demands of the people.

“They will know better the scarcity and complains of the local people, and be more sensible towards that,” he hoped.

Department of International Relations of the University of Dhaka and member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof. Tanzimuddin Khan gave the welcome address where SEHD Director Philip Gain placed the  Keynote presentation.