Govt wants to increase electricity, fuel prices to take revenge on people: Rizvi
As the "dummy election" was rejected by the people, electricity and fuel prices will be increased again on 14 March to take revenge on the people, said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday (22 February).
Speaking at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan office yesterday afternoon, he condemned tariff hikes, saying the government is oppressive and considers the people its enemies.
He said such indifference towards the people was unacceptable.
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Rizvi said the government is increasing the price of electricity and fuel to make public life miserable.
"If the price of electricity and fuel increases, its chain reaction will adversely affect the public. The agricultural industry and factories will be in a deep crisis," he said.
Rizvi said the people were feeling the pinch of increasing prices.
"Consumers are struggling to buy the food they need. A price hike on top of this will hit the common man hard," he said.
Rizvi also claimed that the government has shifted the debt burden onto the people by taking out massive loans from domestic and international sources in the name of development.
"The country's exchequer has become almost empty due to the horrendous fiscal policy of the government," he added.
"The people's question is where did the dollars from the reserve go? Who has embezzled dollars by showing the light of development? Who has smuggled wealth abroad? Now increasing the price of electricity and water supply is another diabolical method of sucking people's blood in different ways."
