Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said BNP and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) are criticizing the national budget in an identical manner every year.
“They (BNP and CPD) make mainly three types of criticisms – the budget is highly ambitious, the budget is not acceptable and it won’t bring any welfare to the common people,” he said this on Sunday while speaking at a press conference at his Secretariat office here.
Hasan, also the Publicity and Publication Secretary of the ruling Awami League, said BNP and CPD didn’t see any development whereas the World Bank is saying that Bangladesh and its economy are going ahead. “Is CPD a bigger research organization than World Bank?” he asked.
“They (CPD) do research only for making criticisms,” he said. Terming the budget an excellent one, the minister said the size of GDP has increased four times and the size of the budget has increased eight times during the Awami League government’s tenure. But the number of taxpayers didn’t increase, he added. “So, the decision for increasing the number of taxpayers to around one crore is a breakthrough. The budget is industry-business-friendly.”
