SANGSAD BHABAN, July 11, 2019 (BSS) – Deputy Leader of the Opposition Begum Raushon Ershad today urged the government to reconsider the gas price hike as the sudden sky rocketing of the gas price would create endless sufferings among the lower income people.
“It is beyond my perceptions …why the gas price has been increased abruptly immediately after passage of the national budget for 2019-20 in the Jatiya Sangsad? The gas price hike put extra burden on the lower income people,” said the deputy leader of the opposition while making her speech just prior to the prorogation of the budget session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad here this afternoon.
Referring the Prime Minister’s statement on the gas price hike, the deputy leader of the opposition said the nation wants development without increasing the gas price though the prime minister stated that the people have to accept the gas price hike if they want development.
The deputy leader of the opposition, however, told the House that when the neighboring India is reducing the gas price, here the gas price has been increased in our country after the national budget which is unethical.
Expressing her anxiety over the abrupt rising of child torture across the country, Raushon Ershad said the child torture has been increased in the country which needs to be checked. He said that the accused should be brought under tough punishment.
She urged the government to impose death sentence against those people who are being involved with the children torture like ‘rape’.
Raushon also asked the government to immediately announce the ninth wage board award for the journalists, and sought the intervention of the prime minister in this regard.
Regarding the marketing of expired medicine, Raushon urged the government to impose strict vigil on the marketing of the contaminated and date expired medicine. Although the High Court has asked to remove all the date expired medicine from the market but it is yet to be removed from the market, she regretted.
On the health care services for the people, the opposition deputy leader said most of the people are preferring to go abroad for treatment as the state-run hospitals are not well-equipped in providing suitable medical services.
Talking about the education budget, she said the government should increase the budget allocation for the education sector for promoting the quality of the education.