“The BNP leaders are financing the ongoing destructive activities including violence, sabotage and secret attacks with Molotov cocktails. If they continue such acts, they should be sued"
Food Minister Quamrul Islam made the statement at a programme on Tuesday.
“Dialogue cannot be held with such an undemocratic party. The ongoing political crisis will be resolved on the streets; not by holding a dialogue"
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told a meeting organised by Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters’ Forum (BSRF) at his office on Tuesday.
"22.5% people lived under poverty line and 9% under extreme poverty line in 2013. Now the situation has improved a lot...Only one strategy – increasing internal demand – has contributed to the reduction of the poverty rate substantively.”
Finance Minister AMA Muhith made the remarks while taking part in the thanks-giving motion on the president’s speech in parliament.