Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) on Thursday called for lowering the cost of all agricultural inputs, giving direct supply to genuine farmers and forming cooperatives of producers and consumers  to reduce the cost of the country's produce.

They said that the imported products are being controlled by some syndicate traders and the prices of those products cannot be controlled without being freed from them.

For this, they observed that it is necessary to ensure the efficient and corruption-free import and sale of the necessary products at specific prices. For this, a universal ration system and fair price shops should be established across the country.

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The leaders expressed strong anger and concern for not taking adequate measures to bring back the smuggled money and recover the defaulted loans saying that these looters cannot be defeated without changing the governance system.

For this reason, people of different professions should unite and fight for their own demands. At the same time, the left democratic alternative forces’ unity should be formed by involving the people.

The leaders expressed anger over the power and energy crisis in the country and said that they have been saying for a long time that the government is trying to manage this sector in a way that will not solve the crisis but will lead to disaster at some point.

Due to the policies of the government, this sector is only increasing the burden on the country's economy and increasing the burden on individuals, they said.

They said that now the government is trying to put more responsibility on the shoulders of the people by increasing the prices regularly for the next three years.

The leaders also said that the energy sector has been turned into an import-dependent sector without taking proper measures to explore and extract onshore and offshore gas.

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Gas extraction and exploration work should be done by hiring foreign contractors transparently through the involvement of domestic institutions by ensuring a 100 percent ownership of these resources by the people of the country.

In this case, the people will not accept any unequal agreement made by undermining the interests of the country through legal loopholes.

In the meeting, conscious citizens were urged to continue the ongoing movement against the increase in the price of daily commodities, the increase in the price of electricity and the resulting crisis in the production of agriculture sector.

The meeting with Central Coordinator of Left Democratic Alliance and President of CPB Ruhin Hossain Prince, General Secretary of Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) Bazlur Rashid Feroz, Coordinator of BSD Marxist Masud Rana, leader of Revolutionary Communist League Professor Abdus Sattar, Democratic Revolutionary Party leader Shahidul Islam Sabuj, Bangladesh Socialist Party Executive President Abdul Ali addressed the meeting held at the CPB central office.