‘Corrupt people benefitted by hiking electricity prices’

Staff Reporter :
Though the lives of common people have become miserable due to high prices of essential commodities along with hiking the electricity prices, some corrupt people are enjoying benefit by hiking power prices.
The government has taken an anti-people decision by increasing the price of electricity.
Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, a member of the BNP Standing Committee said this while talking to reporters at his residence in the city’s Asadgate on Sunday.
He demanded to keep the electricity price at a bearable level considering the sufferings of the common people.
Referring the BNP era, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku said, “If anyone recharge Tk 100 in prepaid meter, they received electricity at Tk 110 and now if recharge Tk 100 and getting electricity at Tk 70. In the name of prepaid meters and quick rentals, money has been taken from people’s pockets and created suffering.”
Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, a former State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources said that the government pushed the people’s life into more miserably by hiking power prices.
He also claimed that the government is disrupting the public life by increasing the price of goods without stopping corruption and looting.
To get rid of it, this dictatorial government should be overthrown from power through a united movement regardless of party affiliation, he added.
People are struggling with the prices of goods, he said, adding that they will have to face more difficulties for increasing the electricity price.
It would help to accelerate commodity prices further for hiking  
 power prices, he added.
Claiming that the Awami League’s main agenda is for corruption, theft and looting, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku said, adding that the common people have to pay their cost now and the people are now slowly becoming poor.