BNP will stage demonstrations across the country to protest against the ongoing loadshedding and mismanagement in the power and energy sector.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the three-day protest program at a press conference at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office.
As part of the programs, BNP’s Dhaka North unit will stage a demonstration on Friday and Dhaka South unit on Saturday. All other metropolitan cities will observe the same programs on the same days.
Besides, BNP’s district units will also stage demonstrations on Sunday.
After that, the party will also stage demonstrations at the upazila level on the same issue.
BNP standing committee members worked out the programs at a virtual meeting on Monday.
The meeting urged the government to step down admitting its failure to ensure the supply of electricity and energy.
Fakhrul said their meeting voiced concern that loadshedding for two to three hours in cities and five to six hours in rural areas has made public life miserable.
It also said setting up power plants to generate electricity without ensuring energy supply has compounded the problem. “The government has taken the power and energy sector to the path of darkness just out of its greed to plunder public money through corruption.”
The BNP policymakers think the power outages are badly affecting the production in industry and agriculture alongside adversely affecting the economy.
Fakhrul said they will come up with elaborate information on corruption, anomalies and mismanagement in the power and energy sector at a press conference very soon.
