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Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Shamima Muslim has reaffirmed that the government’s decision to scale down this year’s Independence Day celebration was driven by the need to manage the country’s limited resources responsibly.
Her remarks come in response to concerns that the reduced celebration excluded schoolchildren from participating in the traditional march-past. Speaking in an exclusive interview on Channel One Newsroom on Thursday, March 6, she assured that future celebrations would be more inclusive while maintaining a cost-effective and patriotic approach.
“Into the future, after we have reviewed the process a bit further, I am sure that what the majority view on how to curate a commemoration that is both inclusive and diverse but that is also still cost sensitive to the time as well as nationalist in approach will be adopted,” she stated.
She emphasized that the decision was necessary given the country’s economic challenges. “We don’t have any problems with that but just for today, the purpose for which we wanted a scale-down version was to me, there were good reasons for it, and at the base of it is that we are in an obscurest time, and it calls for prudence in the management of our very scarce resources,” she explained.
Shamima assured that the government remains committed to balancing national celebrations with financial prudence to ensure responsible spending in challenging economic times.
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