Govt hiked fertiliser prices to meet IMF’s condition: BNP

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government is increasing the prices of gas, electricity, and fertilisers to fulfil the conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stay in power.
“The government has accepted the conditions of the IMF only for cling in power. Only for this reason, the government is increasing electricity and gas prices, causing the commodity prices to rise,” BNP Secretary General said at a programme.
The programme was organised to distribute Eid gifts to the victim families of BNP’s enforced disappeared leaders and activists.
BNP Standing Committee Members Nazrul Islam Khan and Selima Rahman were present at the programme among others.
“The farmers are now being charged very high
prices for fertilisers and it is said that the farmers will suffer, but they have to accept it for the sake of development,” the BNP leader said.
Mirza Fakhrul said that this development is the ruling partymen’s development.
“What development, whose development? This development is the ruling group’s own development,” he said.
The BNP leader said that there were at least 700 people went missing, and thousands of political activists had been killed across the country.
“Such an atrocious situation has been prevailing for the past 14 to 15 years created by the ruling party,” he said.
“The ruling Awami League had become completely isolated from the people. They want to survive in power through this torture, disappearance, and murder,” Mirza Fakhrul said. The people of Bangladesh never heard of these acts of completely eliminating and wiping out political opponents, he said.
Enforced disappearance and picking up were things people heard had happened only in Latin America, he added. Now it has been re-introduced by the ruling Awami League in Bangladesh, the BNP leader said.