The opposition BNP on Sunday demanded reintroduction of food rationing for the labourers and low-income groups to enable them to cope with the unprecedented essential price escalation.
Speaking at a demonstration in the city BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that Awami League had forgotten its pre election pledge that if voted to power its first action would be to bring down essential prices.
He said that after Awami League returned to power rice, pulses, cooking oil, flour and other daily necessities are no more affordable to the common people.
The prices shot up ten times since the AL led government took power, he said.
He said that the low-income and working people were groaning under the burden of soaring prices.
Fakhrul criticised banning rickshaws from several city streets without providing alternative employment for the pullers.
He said, 'This is a government for the rich.'
He said, 'As this government does not care about the poor working people, it did not hesitate to ban rickshaws from so many city streets.'
Jatiyatabdi Rickshaw o Van Sramik Malik Samanway Parishad organised the human chain in front of the National Press Club in protest against police harassment of rickshaw pullers and banning rickshaws from several city streets.
BNP economic affairs secretary Abdus Salam, Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal executive president Abul Kasem Chowdhury, general secretary Zafrul Hasan and rickshaw van malik sramik samanway parishad president Nurul Islam Khan Nasim also addressed the demonstrators.
Source : New Age
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