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Reason for not naming Padma Bridge after Sheikh Hasina
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The Padma Bridge was considered being named after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. But in the end, that did not happen.
See what Obaidul Quader, minister of Road Transport and Bridges, has to say about it.
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