Rental Power Contracts
Khaleda smells graft
Opposition leader Khaleda Zia has criticised the government for resorting to setting up rental power plants at high cost without tender, and brought allegations of corruption against the present administration for doing so.
“We've received allegation of corruption in allowing power plants without tender,” she said while exchanging views with leaders of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal on May Day at her Gulshan office Saturday evening.
The BNP chairperson accused the government of failing to do anything in the power sector in the past 15 months. Now the government is arranging power at higher price, the burden of which will have to be borne by the common people, she said.
Khaleda said the government will not be able to continue in power for long due to its failures in all sectors. She said civil society and eminent citizens also believe that.
Questioning the fairness of the Bhola-3 by-elections, she said if BNP won, there would not have been any change in the power. But the ruling party nominated a terrorist who won the vote through terrorism.
Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal President and BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan, Senior Vice-President Abdul Kashem and BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, among others, were present.
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