The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has demanded immediate resignation of the government taking all the responsibility for the unavailability of energy and the ‘extreme disaster’ in power supply.
BNP national standing committee, the highest policymaking forum of the party, made the demand at its meeting on Monday, said a BNP statement signed by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday.
‘The government has completely failed to deal with the situation because of rampant corruption, incompetence and mismanagement,’ the statement said.
It alleged that a few companies backed by the ruling Awami League laundered a large sum of money with indemnity.
It said that reluctance to extract gas, purchase of high-priced LNG and dwindling reserves due to money laundering have compounded the current crisis.
Unprecedented corruption has led the country to a vulnerable situation with no accountability anywhere in the ‘unelected’ government, said the statement.
Fakhrul stated that the comments of the prime minister’s energy adviser that there was no hope in the energy sector established the statements the BNP made on several occasions, it said.
‘The meeting felt that the so-called mega projects taken by the unelected government and all unnecessary projects, borrowing at high interest rates without sound policies, borrowing for private interests by avoiding international lending institutions, had created a deep crisis in the economy,’ it said.
The BNP also criticised the government for stopping new enrolments for social security programme old-age allowance and widow and widower allowance in the financial year 2022-23 due to lack of allocation.
