Leaders of Rastra Sanskar Andolan, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha and Gono Mukti Party on Friday from separate protest rallies in Dhaka called on the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus to refrain from imposing additional value added tax on more than 100 goods and services.
It will increase prices of the essential commodities resulting in sufferings of the common people, they said.
Rastra Sanskar Andolan organised the rally in front of Meherba Plaza on Topkhana Road where its chief coordinator Hasnat Quaiyum called on the interim government to refrain from imposing fresh VAT and supplementary duties on more than 100 commodities as it would increase sufferings of the common people.
Imposing VAT and SD on the commodities would be contrary to the spirit of the recent student-led mass uprising, Hasnat Quaiyum said.
Finance secretary of the organisation Didarul Bhuiyan opposed stopping truck sale of essential commodities by the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh at cheaper prices and also cancellation of 47 thousand TCB cards and demanded reintroducing the truck sale activity restoring cards.
Leaders of the party Sheikh Nasiruddin, Mintu Mian, Mashkur Ratul and others spoke at the rally.
Bangladesh Gono Mukti Party also held a rally in front of the National Press Club where its convener MA Alim Sarker chaired.
MA Alim Sarker called on the interim government to refrain from imposing VAT and SD on more than 100 commodities.
He called on the interim government to take immediate steps to reduce abnormal price hikes of the essential commodities.
