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Nasin urges govt to reconsider decision of gas price hike
DHAKA, July 02, 2019 (BSS) – Awami League (AL) presidium member and
central 14-party alliance spokesman Mohammed Nasim today urged the government
to reconsider the decision of gas price hike.
“I would request the government to consider its decision of gas price hike
whether it could be kept at tolerable level. So the suffering of people could
be cut,” he told a press conference after a meeting of the 14-party alliance
at Awami League central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital.
Terming the government ‘a people-friendly one’, Nasim said many people may
raise question why the gas price was hiked after the national budget for
fiscal 2019-20 was passed.
With the hike of gas price, he said, a vested quarter is trying to catch
fish in troubled water.
The 14-party spokesman said the prices of gas and electricity were soared
several times during the era of BNP and the party tried to sell gas to other
countries, not considering the local demand. “That’s why the words of gas
price hike are not suited on the mouths of BNP leaders,” he added.
Praising the steps of the law enforcing agencies to prevent social crimes
like violence against women and children, Nasim said the government shows
zero tolerance to these crimes.
He said the 14-party alliance will hold separate rallies in Dinajpur on
July 19 and Kurigram on July 20 in protest against terrorism, drug and
conspiracy of BNP-Jamaat.
Chaired by Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal general secretary Dilip Barua, the
meeting was attended, among others, by chairman of Workers Party of
Bangladesh Rashed Khan Menon, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president Hasnul Haq
Inu, Awami League organising secretary and State Minister for Shipping Khalid
Mahmud Chowdhury, AL relief and social welfare secretary Sujit Roy Nandi,
communist leader Dr Wazidul Islam Khan and general secretary of AL Dhaka City
South unit Shahe Alam Murad.
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