The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday called the proposed budget for the 2024–25 financial year a ‘new plan of looting,’ claiming that it was intended to benefit those who plunder.Â
‘This budget is for looting. In the so-called budget, expenditure is greater than income. All the burden will fall on the common people, and loans from banks and foreign sources will increase further,’ BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters in Dhaka, giving his immediate reaction to the proposed budget.
He said that the proposed budget would put more burdens on the common people.
‘As a result of the budget, everything will be more expensive. Everyone knows about theft in the power sector,’ he said, adding that the budget would help looters increase the prices of all types of services.
BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan described the proposed budget for the financial year 2024–25 as a cruel play on reality.
‘In a word, this entire budget process is a tool arranged by the Awami League government to exploit the poor people of this country,’ he said.
Moyeen Khan added that the government had created an oligarchic state and its budget after the election drama was another heartbreaking and pathetic deception.
‘This unrepresentative government has no moral right to decide the fate of 18 crore people in this country for the next year, and this is the biggest misfortune of Bangladesh today,’ he said.
Finance minister Abul Hasan Mohammad Ali presented the budget proposal for the financial year 2024–25 in Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday.
