Left party for buying rice at Tk 1,200 a maund direct from growers  

Left party for buying rice at Tk 1,200 a maund direct from growers   

The leaders of Bangladesh Communist Party (Marxist) on Saturday urged the government to purchase paddy directly from farmers.

‘Our farmers are frustrated as they aren’t getting fair price of their paddy. They aren’t even getting their production cost. The government must purchase paddy directly from farmers at Tk 1,200 per maund,’ said the party general secretary MA Samad at a human chain at National Press Club.

Samad, also coordinator of Ganatantrik Bam Oikya, claimed that farmers do not get fair prices because of corruption of government officials.

He also demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s corruption.

‘There’s no implementation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s zero tolerance policy against corruption which is plaguing every sector. The government must punish the corrupt,’ Samad added.

Samyabadi Party’s general secretary Harun Chowdhury, Shahid Asad Parishad general secretary Shamshuzzaman Milon, CPB (M) central leaders Saidur Rahman, Shamsul Haque, Mostafa Al Khalid Bin Mahmud, among others, were present.