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 DHAKA, May 29, 2025 (BSS) – BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman today urged the interim government to announce specific date for the next national election saying it is possible to hold the polls before December. "We think that after completing the proposed reforms, if their intentions are honest, they will hold elections by December, which is certainly possible,” he told a discussion on virtual platform. BNP organized the discussion on the occasion of the 44th martyrdom anniversary of BNP founder and Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) auditorium in the city. Party’s Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia virtually addressed the function as the chief guest with Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in the chair. Urging the government to declare the date of next election Tarique Rahman said, “This government could not give a date for the national election even in 10 months. As a result, uncertainty has been created in the political arena,” he said. Noting that economic activities have become uncertain, he said the desired investment is not coming in the country. Business communities and industrialists are worried as hundreds of factories have already been shut down and many others are waiting for closure, he said. Stating that the interim government has no contact with the people, Tarique Rahman said, the advisers know nothing about the woes and expectation of the common people.  Tarique Rahman also said the interim government has been constituted under a special circumstance after the mass uprising. The interim government is not accountable to anybody, he said. BNP Standing Committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Salahuddin Ahmed, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, retired Dhaka University teacher Prof Mahbub Ullah, and Jahangirnagar University Vice-Chancellor Prof Kamrul Ahsan also spoke on the occasion. Publicity Secretary Sultan Salahuddin Tuku moderated it.    
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Upcoming budget to be practical-based, implementable, time befitting: Salehuddin
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DHAKA, May 29, 2025 (BSS) – Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has said that the forthcoming national budget for FY26 would be time befitting and practical-based having implementable approaches since the interim government has considered all the macroeconomic and social issues while framing the budget.    “I won’t say this budget (FY26) as small, but it will definitely be implementable and time befitting. It will be time befitting as issues like inflation, trade, foreign currency reserves, facilitating trade, commerce and businesses, harnessing revenue mobilization are being considered. We’re considering all these issues and thus making the budget as practical-based,” he said. The Finance Adviser said this in an interview with the BSS at his office while shedding lights on the salient features of the upcoming national budget, which would also be the first of its kind for the interim government, headed by Nobel laureate Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. Since the Jatiya Sangsad is not in place now, the Finance Adviser would present the budget via televised speech, to be formalised through a presidential ordinance. Officials familiar with the budget formulation process said that the government is likely to deliver a Taka 7,90,000 crore national budget for FY26 which would be Taka 7,000 crore smaller than the original budget size for the current fiscal year. This will mark the first televised budget speech of the interim government since the fiscal year 2007–08, when former caretaker government Adviser AB Mirza Azizul Islam delivered two budgets via national broadcast. The Finance Adviser said the ensuing budget once announced can be considered as implementable as the government would not take any mega project, but would make necessary allocations in harnessing power and energy, physical infrastructures, education, agriculture and health sectors. “We’ll not take any monument project or those projects which have no benefits,” he added. Dr Salehuddin alleged that a lot of projects were undertaken in the past to facilitate a small number of people, but such kind of projects would not be taken anymore. “We want to reach the benefits of development to all … it may not reach to all equally, but it will reach. It won’t reach to people in a one-sided manner like in the past … we’re trying to deliver our best,” he said.  When asked about the budget size, he said it would not remain static considering the outgoing budget. “Although the size won’t be huge, but the ADP will be a bit less while the budget deficit will not exceed 4 percent of the GDP and we’ll contain it below 4 percent,” The Finance Adviser went on saying, “We’ll focus more on mobilizing resources from the internal sources than the external sources. But, we’ve already got a lot of commitments from the development partners side by side we’ll get budget support from the World Bank, ADB alongside the support from IMF’s loan package.” Mentioning that the government would not put additional burden on its loan portfolio considering the issue of debt sustainability, he said the government would ensure optimum utilization of fund both local and foreign ones. “We don’t want misuse of fund to happen as it will reduce the burden on loans and tax and thus help to gain maximum benefits,” he said. Dr Salehuddin said the budget size would not become small considering the absolute size as price and cost are being increased keeping pace with the changing context and time while the project cost is also being increased. “It will not be a huge expansionary budget… there would not be a quantum jump in the budget,” he said adding that there would be no unnecessary expenditure. The Finance Adviser putting utmost importance on ensuring value for money said that austerity would be pursued but that does not mean like moving forward without having meals. “We’ll ensure ‘value for money’, we will ensure timely completion of projects to avert time and cost over runs…we’ve cut allocations many of our development projects in the outgoing year,” he added. When asked whether this government would get one year to fully implement this budget, the Finance Adviser said that the national budget could never be for a six-month time or for a nine-month time. But, there is a constitutional obligation that a budget would have one-year timeframe for implementing it although the monetary policy could be for a six-month timeframe since there is no constitutional obligation. “If we can’t get one-year timeframe for implementing it fully, then the successive government will implement it. They can further modify it … but it’s not possible to make complete departure from what we’ll deliver,” he said.
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