Dhaka, Jan. 12 -- Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Friday vowed that the journey toward prosperity will be continued since her party assumed power again through the people's mandate.

"Bangladesh's journey toward the socio-economic advancement will be continued," she wrote while signing the visitors' book kept on the National Memorial premises after paying homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War with her new cabinet colleagues, reports BSS.

The prime minister also pledged to build a hunger and poverty-free "Sonar Bangla" as envisioned by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

She also wrote that Bangladesh Awami League had won the January 7 election through the people's mandate.

"This ...