Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Sunday extended support for a half-day strike called by the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports for January 26 demanding cancellation of the Rampal Power Plant project near Sundarbans.
“We are extending support to the half-day hartal for January 26 to protect Sundarbans,” said, BNP
Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi while addressing a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office in the capital.
The national committee said, they will enforce the half-day shutdown in Dhaka if the government does not scrap the Rampal power plant project.
In 2009, Bangladesh and India signed a deal to set up the two power plants in Shapmari and Katakhali, nine kilometres from the Sundarbans.
A total of 1,834 acres of land has already been acquired for the power plants with a capacity of 1,320 megawatt of electricity.
Rizvi said, “The BNP government never comes back from their given promises. This government will sacrifice the national interests if necessary to please the neighbours.”
Despite the government’s assurance that the plant would not harm the Sundarbans, the UNESCO remains firm against the plant and requested the Bangladesh government to cancel and relocate it to a more suitable place.
BNP central leader Abdus Salam, Abul Khair Bhuiyan and Abdus Salam Azad, among others, were present..
The BNP on Sunday extended support for a half-day strike called by the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports for January 26 demanding cancellation of the Rampal Power Plant project near Sundarbans.
“We are extending support to the half-day hartal for January 26 to protect Sundarbans,” said, BNP
Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi while addressing a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office in the capital.
The national committee said, they will enforce the half-day shutdown in Dhaka if the government does not scrap the Rampal power plant project.
In 2009, Bangladesh and India signed a deal to set up the two power plants in Shapmari and Katakhali, nine kilometres from the Sundarbans.
A total of 1,834 acres of land has already been acquired for the power plants with a capacity of 1,320 megawatt of electricity.
Rizvi said, “The BNP government never comes back from their given promises. This government will sacrifice the national interests if necessary to please the neighbours.”
Despite the government’s assurance that the plant would not harm the Sundarbans, the UNESCO remains firm against the plant and requested the Bangladesh government to cancel and relocate it to a more suitable place.
BNP central leader Abdus Salam, Abul Khair Bhuiyan and Abdus Salam Azad, among others, were present..
