‘I will not say anti-people, this budget is anti-national’: Fakhrul

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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has commented that the proposed budget is anti-national.

He said this in an immediate reaction while talking to the media persons in front of the BNP Chairperson's political office at Gulshan in the capital on Thursday (June 6) afternoon.

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Fakhrul said, it has become a country of robbers. The government has become a looter. What would the looters budget for?

He said, this is what I see, a new robbery is planned. That is, in the so-called budget, the expenditure is much higher than the income. In places where income share is being shown, all the burden falls on the common people and what they do to meet the expenses will also fall on the common people.

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Mirza Fakhrul said that grants or loans are being brought from abroad, and loans will be taken from the banks. It all depends on people. People can no longer carry this load. Inflation has skyrocketed. The increase in the price of food items is not sustainable. A few days ago petrol-diesel, electricity prices increased, now they will increase again with the budget.

The agreement with the IMF will increase four times every year. We are paying this money for; everyone knows that there is theft in the electricity sector. From Quick Rentals to Adani, all from India have made the pockets heavy. Where is the Rooppur plant now and the Rooppur plant is not progressing at all. Where did the work of Payra port flyover, elevated expressway - very good talk. But in any way you are solving the problems of common people, people are not able anymore, many people are leaving the city and moving to the village. Because they are not able to survive in Dhaka city anymore,' he said.

BNP Secretary General also said that the biggest problem in this budget is that there is nothing to create employment here. The entire budget is spent on mega projects, mega theft and mega corruption. I will not call this budget anti-people, it is an anti-Bangladesh budget.

In this budget, 15 percent VAT has been imposed on laundering black money and 30 percent VAT has been imposed on legitimate earnings. Nothing happens here to those who do wrong.

He said, 'How can a government official create thousands of crores of wealth, how can a former army chief create so much wealth that the workers could not go to Malaysia, why could not because of the government's failure. It happened due to the  extreme failure of administration.