People suffer for power price hiking: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP on Sunday said the people are in acute suffering from load shedding and repeatedly power price hiking.

“Country’s power sector has plunged into a deep crisis while the people are in acute suffering from load shedding and frequent power price hiking,” BNP Senior Joint- Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said at a press briefing at party’s Nayapalton office in the capital.

Rizvi said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s recent remarks on the power situation contradict with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s speech over the issue.

The BNP leader said Quader claimed that hundred percent people of the country are getting electricity supply while his PM a few days ago said that she directed to the authorities to give load-shedding in small scale.

BNP Vice-Chairman Ahmed Azam Khan, Adviser to Chairperson Zainul Abdeen Farooq, Zainal Abedin, Organizational Secretary Advocate Abdus Salam Azad, Assistant Office Secretary Munir Hossain and Assistant Economic Secretary Mahmudur Rahman Sumon, were present in event.

Rizvi also criticized Obaidul Quader’s another speech that BNP is pleading with its foreign masters by ignoring the people of the country.

The BNP leader alleged that the AL general secretary is perhaps suffering from amnesia as he had forgotten the 2014 election when India’s then-foreign secretary Sujata Singh visited Bangladesh to show their support to AL and manage HM Ershad to join the polls. It is a clear sign of intervention in a sovereign country, Rizvi said.

“The people of the country have seen further this time (January 7 election) that they (India) stand beside AL not Bangladeshi people,” the BNP leader said.