‘Controlling daily essentials price to get priority in election manifesto’

City Desk :
Bangladesh Awami League will give special importance over controlling the prices of daily essentials in its manifesto for the upcoming general election, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said on Saturday.

The minister was replying at the grand finale and award distribution ceremony of the Shadow Parliament on Consumer Rights Protection, a joint initiative of the National Directorate of Consumer Rights Protection and Debate for Democracy at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation-BFDC in the capital as the chief guest, reports UNB.

The Commerce Minister said Awami League does politics for the welfare of the people of the country. The government has continued its efforts to keep commodity prices at a tolerable level.

“We may not control 100% in the global context but we have success compared to many countries of the world,” he added.

Considering the low-income people, the government is conducting the sale of daily necessities at low prices through various programmes including TCB on the instructions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.