Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Dhaka City North secretary Dr. Muhammad Rezaul Karim and member of central working committee said, “The government of Bangladesh has proposed an unrealistic and anti-people budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023. In the proposed budget, it has been given opportunities for pro-government people for looting. This budget has also paved the way how the ruling party’s activists will loot in the near future. So, people have rejected this budget with hate.”
He urged the government to withdraw this anti-people budget immediately. He also urged them to hand over power to the caretaker government to take people’s mandate. Otherwise, government must be given accountabilities to people for their unjustified actions.
He today said these while speaking at a post-demonstration rally in the capital. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Dhaka City North arranged this demonstration for the demand of protesting and withdrawing of the proposed anti-people budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023.
The demonstration was started from Mirpur-10 and it moved around different important roads of the city. It was ended at Mirpur-12 with a short rally.
Lashkar Mohammad Taslim, assistant secretary of Jamaat Dhaka City North and member of central Mojlish-e-Shura, Mahfuzur Rahman, Dr. Fakhruddin Manik, Zeaul Hasan, member of working committee of Jamaat Dhaka City North, Maulana Mhibulla, Yassin Arafat, Jamal Uddin, Hemayet Hossaini and others were also present in the demonstration.
“The government has no rights to announce budget as they are not elected by the people. They are vote rigging government. They are the government of the night votes. They are not the representatives of the people of the country. Basically, this budget will make common people suffer more. The proposed budget has given the opportunities to return money which has already been laundered. These are immoral and against the rule of law and constitution. Above all, these are against justice. It cannot happen in any civilized society. The government has given these opportunities as they are looters. They have no accountabilities to people as they are unelected,” he further added.
So, this government will be overthrown and a pro-people government should be established for the greater interests of the nation and the state.
“This budget is totally divorced from reality. The proposed budget has been given the special priority to the rich. As a result, a pro-government group will be beneficiary and the poor will suffer a lot. As the value of taka is depreciating against dollars and the price hike is rising, common people are suffering a lot. The proposed budget is unable to solve these. The pressure of borrowing and repaying domestic and foreign loans in the budget will also fall on the poor people. The proposed budget focuses on preventing inflation, job creation, health care, human resource development sectors but in reality, there is no similarity with these. So, people will not accept this fault budget,” he again added.
“In the proposed budget, the total ADP has been fixed at Tk 2 lakh 4 thousand 66 crore, the revenue has been estimated Tk 4 lakh 36 thousand 271 crore. In the last fiscal year, the National Board of Revenue was responsible for collecting revenue of Tk 3 lakh 30 thousand crore. But in the last 9 months (July-March) revenue collection has been only 2 lakh 4 thousand crore. It is 1 lakh 26 thousand crore less than the target. According to the target, in the last three months of the current fiscal year, the income will be 1 lakh 26 thousand crore which is almost impossible to collect,” he also added.
“The budget has set a target of borrowing loans and accepting grants Tk 95,458 crore from foreign sources. Bank loan has been estimated at TK 1 lakh 6 thousand 334 crore. The deficit has been estimated at Tk 2,45,064 crore. 36.14 percent of the total budget depends on dept. The government’s confidence will go up to pay off the debt like the previous year. So, the government can do nothing to the field of national development. Basically, the government without votes is ruling the nation by using state organs.
They have gone on a mission to make the nation incompetent and leaderless by killing the national leaders one after another to prolong their illegitimate power. The government want to fulfill their political highness to imprison the national guardians. But people will not make their dreams fulfilled,” he also said.
He demanded the unconditional release of all political leaders and activists including Allama Delwar Hossain Sayedee. Otherwise, people will release their leaders In-Sha-Allah.