The Bangladesh National Awami Party formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Tuesday in protest at the hike in the prices of agricultural inputs, namely fertiliser, diesel and electricity.
The speakers at the programme said that the price hike would seriously hamper the food production of the country.
M Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan, secretary general of the party, criticised the government saying that it had breached its commitment to supply the agricultural inputs to the farmers free of cost.
The increase in the prices of agricultural inputs will result in the food price hike, he added.
The downsizing of the government subsidies for the agriculture sector in the proposed national budget of 2011-12 will also affect the sector, he viewed.
National Democratic Party chairman Khandokar Golam Murtaza termed the price hike as destructive for the farmer community.
They called for a concerted movement against the government in this regard.
Dhaka city president of Bangladesh NAP Muhammad Kamaluddin, founder chairman of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangshad Ismail Hossain Bengal and National Peoples Party president Fariduzzaman Farhad also attended the programme, among others.
Source : New Age
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