Opposition MPs blast govt over price hike of essentials, fuel, corruption
Opposition Jatiya Party and BNP MPs yesterday (August 30, 2022) in parliament blasted the government for its utter failure to arrest price hike of essentials, increasing price of fuel, widespread corruption, and money laundering of thousands of crores of taka.
Participating in the general discussion on a proposal, the opposition MPs said, blamed the government's wrong policies, mismanagement, corruption and inefficiency in every sector behind the sorry state of the country.
The opposition MPs said, there is no accountability anywhere in the government.
Treasury bench lawmakers, however, said the current situation of the country, including price hike of essentials, was caused due to the global crisis following the Russia-Ukraine war.
MPs belonging to the Awami League-led 14-party alliance including Workers Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal remained cautious while criticising the government.
Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque Chunnu placed the proposal titled --"Parliament is of the opinion that short and long term sustainable measures taken by the government to deal with the problems of Covid-19, global unrest, Ukraine-Russia war, climate change, natural disasters, energy crisis, rising commodity prices should be informed to the nation through discussion in parliament."
While placing the proposal, Chunnu said the prices of diesel, octane and petrol have been increased by 41 to 51 percent at one go. Such an increase in fuel price was not seen since independence. Due to this, the prices of all goods have increased.
Chunnu blasted the government for its wrong policy in power production.
"The government is paying thousands of crores of taka to different captive power plants, keeping them idle. Without constructing the transmission line, the government is producing power causing wastage of huge amounts of public money," he added.
JP MP Kazi Firoz Rashid said widespread corruption, looting and money laundering of thousands of crores of taka, syndicates of corrupt businessmen are responsible for the present sorry state of the country.
Another JP party MP Shameem Haider Patwari said the government has made many mistakes. Now is the time to admit mistakes. So that this mistake is not repeated in the future.
He said the government has to pay a huge amount of money as capacity charge in the Rooppur Power plant.
The JP MP said, Rampal project has no transmission line but capacity charge has to be paid.
He also said Tk 500 crore was spent on feasibility study of bullet train and subway, Tk 600 crore loan was taken for VAT automation project but it was not implemented. "We have launched satellites. But how much money will come from there?"
BNP MP Rumeen Farhana said, "The government was saying that the country is moving on the highway of development and going to become a developed nation like Singapore. But suddenly we saw that the country is going to become like Sri Lanka."
Rumeen said, government development means some projects at unimaginable cost. The Hindustan Times reports that the Rooppur power plant in Bangladesh costs five times the cost of a similar power plant of the same capacity in Tamil Nadu, India. In all the projects in the country, the same amount has been looted.
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