Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) today (June 6) criticized the proposed budget for the 2024–25 fiscal year, labeling it a 'new plan of looting' and alleging it was designed to benefit those who engage in plundering.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said: ‘This budget is for looting. The so-called budget shows expenditures exceeding income. The common people will bear all the burden, leading to an increase in loans from banks and foreign sources."

He was giving his immediate reaction to the proposed budget while talking to reporters in Dhaka.

He claimed the proposed budget would impose more burdens on ordinary citizens.

‘As a consequence of this budget, everything will become more expensive. Everyone is aware of the theft in the power sector,’ he said, adding that the budget would enable looters to raise the prices of all services.

BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan characterized the proposed budget for 2024–25 as a cruel distortion of reality.

‘In short, this entire budget process is a mechanism arranged by the Awami League government to exploit the poor population of this country,’ he added.

Moyeen Khan further stated that the government had created an oligarchic state and that its budget following the election charade was another instance of heartbreaking and pathetic deception.

‘This unrepresentative government lacks the moral right to determine the fate of 18 crore people in this country for the next year, and this is the greatest misfortune facing Bangladesh today,’ he said.

Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mohammad Ali placed the budget proposal for the 2024–25 fiscal year in Jatiya Sangsad today.

BDST: 2017 HRS, JUN 06, 2024
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