'Introduce food rationing to tackle price hike'

Leaders of Workers' Party of Bangladesh yesterday urged the government to introduce food rationing system immediately in order to tackle the prevailing price hike during Ramadan.
Criticising the government for its failure to control the prices of essentials during the holy month, they said it has also failed to improve the law and order situation and curb corruption as well.
The leaders said this at the first day of a two-day central committee meeting at its party office in the city.
Though the corrupt suspects are being freed through a legal process, secret deals behind the release are evident, they said, adding that the government has no moral right to talk big about bringing qualitative changes in politics.
The leaders demanded steps to make public the corrupt activities committed during the tenure of the previous BNP-Jamaat alliance government, repatriate the siphoned-off money and take punitive action against the corrupts.
Comrade Iqbal Kabir Jahid, Nazrul Islam Hakkani, Liakat Ali Liku, Manoz Shaha, Mosaddek Hossain Labu, Mostafa Lutfullah, Prof Abdus Sattar, Habibur Rahaman, Kamrul Ahsan and Haji Bashir took part in the meeting.