BNP Wants Army to Transport Food Items: BNP

On Sunday, BNP asked the government to give the army and other law enforcement agencies responsible for transporting 'food products' in order to ensure a sufficient supply of commodities throughout the country.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the proposal when handing over PPEs to the Dhanmondi Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital authorities at the initiative of the Ziaur Rahman Foundation and the Bangladesh Doctors Association (DAB).

"It’s now imperative to ensure enough agricultural products and food in the market to save people from starvation. So, the army and other law enforcement agencies should be given responsibility for transporting these food items,” he said.

The BNP leader alleged that people are passing through a very bad time for lack of food in different parts of the country. “Baggers are searching food on footpaths while people put up a barricade on Dhaka-Chattogram highway for food and a truck loaded with relief materials was plundered in the district,” he said.

Though the poor people are suffering for want of food, ruling party leaders are misappropriating rice and other relief goods, he alleged.

“Rice and edible oil are being recovered from the houses of ruling party leaders. A pro-ruling party female UP member has embezzled money meant for baggers. These misdeeds are happening for lack of a responsible and accountable government.”

Rizvi said though the opposition parties are talking about a national unity to tackle the corona situation and assuage the sufferings of people with united efforts, the government is not paying heed to it.

The leader of the BNP said that his group does not wish to attack the government in the current scenario, but that it is their duty to address the actual reality and its lapses in order to cope successfully with the current situation.

Source: UNB