The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Saturday that Bangladesh had now become a death valley due to the ‘development tricks’ of the Awami League government.
The party senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, made the comment while inaugurating a programme of distribution of drinking water and saline among pedestrians at Mirpur in the capital amid the ongoing heatwave.
The seven-day programme was organised by the Dhaka city north BNP.
‘Due to unplanned urbanisation, trees and forests have been destroyed. By filling up water bodies, including rivers and canals, and setting up thermal and coal power plants, the government has put people’s lives at risk,’ he said.
He said that the country was now turned into a gas chamber.
‘Due to the installation of thermal power plants by burning coal, fruit trees are no longer bearing fruits and 53 per cent of places outside Dhaka do not have electricity,’ he said.
People of the Awami League are filling ponds and canals, he said, adding that Bangladesh has been made an arena of looting while the government is unable to import goods from abroad due to the dollar crisis.
Presided by Dhaka North city unit acting convener Farhad Haleem Donar and moderated by its member secretary Aminul Haque, BNP central leaders Tabid Awal, Mahmudur Rahman Sumon, Anwaruzzaman Anwar, Mostafa Zaman, Ataur Rahman, Mostafizur Rahman, Abdur Razzak and others spoke at the event.
