BNP has announced strict resistance if the price of electricity is increased

The Dhaka Times Desk BNP has announced that it will fight hard and strictly if the price of electricity is increased. Acting General Secretary of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said this in a statement yesterday.

In the statement given to the media yesterday, the BNP has said that the proposal of the Electricity Development Board to increase the price of electricity by neglecting the public interest is an anti-people decision of the divided government. At the same time, it has warned of tough and tough resistance if the price of electricity is increased.

Acting General Secretary of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir warned about this and said that the government is taking anti-people decisions that ignore the benefits and interests of the people because the people are divided.

Mirza Fakhrul said in his statement about increasing electricity prices one after the other, since coming to power in January 2009, this government has increased the electricity prices several times and burdened the ordinary consumers with abnormal electricity bills. He complained that the power sector has been turned into a paradise for looting by relatives of the rulers. The power sector has been destroyed by loosing thousands of crores of rupees by setting up rental and quick rental power plants. Now they are increasing the price of electricity on poor, lower middle class and middle class consumers.

Regarding agriculture, Mirza Fakhrul said that the cost of electricity per unit for irrigation pumps has been increased by 60 percent to upset agriculture, which is the center of the national economy. He urged the government to refrain from all anti-people activities.