AL govt has no right to place budget, collect taxes: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the ruling Awami League government had no ‘legitimacy’ of placing budget and collecting tax as it was not elected by the people.
At a pre-budget discussion at a Dhaka hotel, he also said the economy had been turned into an art of ‘looting’.
MBA Association of Bangladesh organised the discussion, where Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman, also former energy adviser of BNP government, presented a keynote paper.
Fakhrul said the country’s economy was plunging but the government was showing ‘magic’ presenting ‘manipulated statistics’.
‘The country’s economy is being destroying in a planned way since the military-backed 1/11 regime’, he said.
‘We don’t know how this economy would be reinstated on its right track’, Fakhrul added. He said the government had no right to place budget as it was not elected and had no accountability to people.
‘The government has no right to collect tax’, he added.
Comparing different statistics of economy between the last BNP government and the present regime, Mahmudur Rahman said the development which BNP made was yet to be gained by the current government.
‘The current era is based on some myths of development but actually an economic era of inefficiency, leakage and corruption’, he said.
Mahmudur said sustainability of growth, reduction of non-development expenditure, efficient implementation of annual development plan, arresting capital flight, diversification of export basket, politicisation of administration and corruption were the main challenges ahead of the government.
BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, its senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, among others, spoke at the programme. 

 

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