Foreign Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has noted that a budget of nearly Tk 8 lakh crore has been presented in Parliament on Thursday.
“Every time a budget is presented, you will see that the BNP holds a press conference and says that this budget is anti-people, budget to kill the poor, this budget will not do any good. There are some groups including BNP who do not see anything good in their eyes. In fact, the implementation rate of each budget in the last 15 years has been 92 to 97 percent.
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The Foreign Minister said these things while speaking as the chief guest at a reception and felicitation ceremony for former presidents and general secretaries of the Chattogram Press Club on the occasion of its 62nd foundation anniversary, held at the Chattogram Press Club at 9 pm on Thursday.
“So it is their (BNP’s) habit to find fault with everything. That's why they say that this budget is not implementable. This culture of saying no to everything is an obstacle to the development and progress of the country,” said the AL leader.
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“The size of the budget has increased 11.5 times in the last 15 years. Per capita income has increased five and a half times. The size of GDP has increased almost six times. And the number of people living below the poverty line in Bangladesh was 41 percent. It has come down from there to 18.7 percent. Extreme poverty was 22 percent, which has come down to 5.5 percent,” he added.
“If the budget had not benefited the poor, poverty and extreme poverty would not have decreased. People's income has increased five and a half times in dollar terms, even more in taka terms. This has been possible due to the realistic budget formulation and implementation of that budget by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government,” Hasan also said.
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Mentioning that journalists are the advanced part of the society, they show the way to the society, they bring out the unmentioned issues of the society, the Foreign Minister said, “Journalists will point out the mistakes of the government, we welcome that. It is helpful in doing the work properly. However, it is often seen that some reports are done in such a way that they are harmful to the country.”
Chattogram Press Club President Salauddin M Reza presided over the programme while Chattogram District Council Chairman ATM Peyarul Islam, CDA Chairman Mohammad Yunus, spoke as special guests, among others.