Padma Bridge Construction
Govt will only lay foundation stone
Claims Moudud; Fakhrul urges campaign against 'govt misrule'
BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed yesterday said the government will only lay the foundation stone of the Padma bridge project at Maowa and claim that the bridge has been constructed.
Meanwhile, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked the party activists to make people aware about “the government's misrule” through a massive campaign.
Moudud, addressing a discussion at Jatiya Press Club, said, “At the last moment of their tenure, the government will show people the foundation stone and say that they have built the Padma bridge.”
“Padma Bridge Bastobayan Parishad”, a pro-opposition body, organised the discussion.
Accusing the government of deceiving the people of the country, he said the government had become mentally unstable by declaring that the bridge would be built with its own funds.
“The idea of constructing the Padma bridge with lawmakers' salaries, surcharges and money from the annual development programme was nothing but an illusion,” he added.
Moudud said the prime minister had accused World Bank of cheating people but the fact was that the government cheated people by not taking action against corrupt people responsible for World Bank's loan cancellation decision.
Former minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman also spoke at the discussion.
Meanwhile, Mirza Fakhrul, after inaugurating a training workshop organised by BNP at a hotel in the capital, accused the government of throwing the country into a chaotic situation.
“The government is controlling everything by making the administration and judiciary partisan. It has even snatched away people's right to vote by amending the constitution,” he said.
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