Staff Reporter :
Rejecting the newly announced gas price, Dr. Kamal Hossain’s Gono Forum will stage demonstration across the country on Tuesday protesting the hike and the National Budget for the 2019-20 fiscal.
Gono Forum, which recently came into limelight by taking part in the December 30 National Election, forging a unity with BNP-led 20-party alliance and some other political parties, on Saturday made the announcement.
The party will also bring out a procession from in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on that day.
Meanwhile, Left Democratic Alliance is (LDA) going to observe half-day hartal across the country today protesting the hike of the gas price.
BNP, Gono Forun and Krishak Sramik Janata League extended their moral supports to the hartal and called upon people to make the protest programme a success.
According to the new tariff, households using a single burner will pay Tk 925 instead of Tk 750 a month. Those using a double burner will pay Tk 975 instead of Tk 800.
Earlier on June 15, Gono Forum rejected the proposed National Budget for 2019-20 fiscal terming it as frustrating anti-people.
On June 13, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal presented Tk 523,190 crore budget for the fiscal year of 2019-20. The new budget is 18.1 per cent of GDP.
Rejecting the newly announced gas price, Dr. Kamal Hossain’s Gono Forum will stage demonstration across the country on Tuesday protesting the hike and the National Budget for the 2019-20 fiscal.
Gono Forum, which recently came into limelight by taking part in the December 30 National Election, forging a unity with BNP-led 20-party alliance and some other political parties, on Saturday made the announcement.
The party will also bring out a procession from in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on that day.
Meanwhile, Left Democratic Alliance is (LDA) going to observe half-day hartal across the country today protesting the hike of the gas price.
BNP, Gono Forun and Krishak Sramik Janata League extended their moral supports to the hartal and called upon people to make the protest programme a success.
According to the new tariff, households using a single burner will pay Tk 925 instead of Tk 750 a month. Those using a double burner will pay Tk 975 instead of Tk 800.
Earlier on June 15, Gono Forum rejected the proposed National Budget for 2019-20 fiscal terming it as frustrating anti-people.
On June 13, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal presented Tk 523,190 crore budget for the fiscal year of 2019-20. The new budget is 18.1 per cent of GDP.
