Pro-BNP body seeks referendum on Rampal
Pro-BNP intellectuals yesterday urged the government to hold a referendum and debate and decide whether to implement the Rampal power plant project based on those.
Objections aimed to protect national interests and are not a means to criticise the government, they said, hoping that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would “rely on her conscience”.
They were addressing a seminar Shatanagarik Jatiya Committee organised on the issue at a restaurant in the capital's Bijoynagar.
Former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury asked taking the allegations into consideration first and claimed India cancelled two similar projects over environmental damage concerns.
He questioned why the plant was not being set up on the Indian part of the Sundarbans and found “the hurry” in setting up the plant to be “fishy”.
Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique said it was possible to live without electricity and set up 30 plants but getting another forest like the Sundarbans was impossible.
Former Dhaka University vice chancellor Emajuddin Ahmed and Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury also spoke.
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