BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed that the government will not be able to rein in the skyrocketing prices of daily essentials as the ruling party leaders are involved with the syndicates that manipulate the market.
"The price of per kg rice is now Tk 70 while that of per litre soybean oil is Tk 200… the price of no item is now under control. We can't afford the food we used to normally buy previously," he said while speaking at a rally on Wednesday.
Most people now cannot give their children the necessary amount of nutritious food items like meat, fish and eggs due to an unusual price hike of all commodities, said the former state minister.
"They (government) won't be able to lower the prices of essentials as they are benefited from it. Their leaders have created syndicates and get a share from them," he alleged.
Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebak Dal arranged the rally in front of the National Press Club protesting the soaring prices of daily essentials and the cost of utility services.
Fakhrul alleged that the Awami League has set up traps all around in a planned way to plunder the resources of the country and siphon off their ill-gotten money abroad.
