BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Thursday said that if BNP comes to power in future, it would go for serious deregulation and serious liberalization to accelerate the economic growth through investment promotion.
“We want to bring radical changes through simplification of everything so that the obstacles and adversities the investors face in Bangladesh would be no more. One of the radical changes is that we will carry out serious deregulation and serious liberalization,” he said.
The BNP leader said this at a views-exchange with guests here for the Bangladesh Investment Summit 2025. BNP arranged the event at Hotel Sarina in the city’s Banani area to raise the party’s future investment policy.
Khasru, formerly a commerce minister under the BNP, said his party has already made a plan for the future economy, which is reflected in its Vision 2030 and the 31-Point State Overhauling Outline.
Citing that BNP has always supported the private sector led economic growth since its inception, he said they want to make Bangladesh's economy as a liberal economy by providing all sorts of possible opportunities to the investors.
The BNP standing committee member said investment is one of the issues where all should be united for the sake of the country and its people.
“It is not possible for any economy to move forward without investment – either it may be local investment or foreign investment. An economy that moves forward through investment is a sustainable one,” he said.
Amir Khasru said the policy to move the economy forward through investment promotion was BNP’s economic programmes in the past, which yielded a good result at that time. The GDP growth was 7.06 percent at the end of BNP’s last government (2006). If that trend had continued, the growth should have been 10 percent now. But that did not happen due to the mismanagement of the previous government, he claimed.
Welcoming the interim government's initiative to increase investment, the BNP leader said they support all the things the interim government does in the public interest,