Staff Reporter :
BNP on Friday opposed the government plan to collect toll from the vehicles using highways, saying it is an anti-people move because it is a financial burden on the passengers.
“The government at the ECNEC meeting on Tuesday directed to collect toll from vehicles that ply on national highways. Such a decision is anti-people and undemocratic,” said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
In a meeting, PM Sheikh Hasina said that toll is not collected for using bridges only but for using the national highways also.
Rizvi Ahmed said this in a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Friday noon.
He said, their party thinks that the government is going to make cost of living more costly. “On behalf of BNP, I call upon the government to reverse this decision.”
Most of the roads throughout the country are in a sorry state with potholes, frequent accidents and loss of lives.
Besides, he said, passengers are going through unabated sufferings due to tailbacks on the roads and the highways, and the sufferings will
increase if toll boxes are set up on the highways.
“People will have to pay extra money it the government’s decision is enforced. The intensity of traffic jams will increase also,” the BNP leader observed.
He said, though the government used to sing always about massive development, it is actually imposing the new load of tax and VAT on people in one way or the other’.
Rizvi said the government has increased the taxes of city corporations and municipalities, holding taxes and the tariffs of utility services. “Not only that, people have to pay to the government for communicating through mobile phones. In fact, the government is depleting the country’s resources.”
BNP on Friday opposed the government plan to collect toll from the vehicles using highways, saying it is an anti-people move because it is a financial burden on the passengers.
“The government at the ECNEC meeting on Tuesday directed to collect toll from vehicles that ply on national highways. Such a decision is anti-people and undemocratic,” said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
In a meeting, PM Sheikh Hasina said that toll is not collected for using bridges only but for using the national highways also.
Rizvi Ahmed said this in a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Friday noon.
He said, their party thinks that the government is going to make cost of living more costly. “On behalf of BNP, I call upon the government to reverse this decision.”
Most of the roads throughout the country are in a sorry state with potholes, frequent accidents and loss of lives.
Besides, he said, passengers are going through unabated sufferings due to tailbacks on the roads and the highways, and the sufferings will
increase if toll boxes are set up on the highways.
“People will have to pay extra money it the government’s decision is enforced. The intensity of traffic jams will increase also,” the BNP leader observed.
He said, though the government used to sing always about massive development, it is actually imposing the new load of tax and VAT on people in one way or the other’.
Rizvi said the government has increased the taxes of city corporations and municipalities, holding taxes and the tariffs of utility services. “Not only that, people have to pay to the government for communicating through mobile phones. In fact, the government is depleting the country’s resources.”
