Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Sunday said that the entire nation become stunned because of the government’s rigid stance over Rampal power plant despite UNESCO’s advice to relocate.
“UNESCO has recommended to the government to shift the power plant project to a safer place as the Sundarbans will be badly affected if it is set up at Rampal. But the government is showing their rigid position in the issue. The whole nation has got astonished and shocked, as the government’s such stance. They are ignoring public interest and Sundarbans’ risk,” BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu said. He said, it at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan office. The BNP leader said it a day after state minister for power and energy Nasrul Hamid’s comment that the construction work on Rampal power plant will not be suspended.
Shamsuzzaman Dudu also said Indian company BHEL, which has been awarded a contract to set up Rampal plant, did not provide UNESCO
with adequate information about the technology and equipment to be used to check environmental affect to the Sundarbans.
The BNP leader called upon people to get united against the government’s stance of Rampal power plant.
Reacting to the prime minister’s remark, that there is adequate scope to doing politics in Bangladesh now, Dudu said there is no normal political atmosphere in the country now as they cannot freely hold any meeting and rally.
Dudu also slammed the government for showing arrested Gazipur City Corporation mayor MA Mannan in a fresh case after he got bail in all the cases filed against him. “We strongly condemn and protest the government’s move.”
He also said that his party does not want mid-term election but fresh polls.
BNP central leader, Ahmed Azam Khan, Mujibur Rahman Sarwar, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Taiful Islam Tipu and Munir Hossain, among others, were present in the briefing.
The BNP on Sunday said that the entire nation become stunned because of the government’s rigid stance over Rampal power plant despite UNESCO’s advice to relocate.
“UNESCO has recommended to the government to shift the power plant project to a safer place as the Sundarbans will be badly affected if it is set up at Rampal. But the government is showing their rigid position in the issue. The whole nation has got astonished and shocked, as the government’s such stance. They are ignoring public interest and Sundarbans’ risk,” BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu said. He said, it at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan office. The BNP leader said it a day after state minister for power and energy Nasrul Hamid’s comment that the construction work on Rampal power plant will not be suspended.
Shamsuzzaman Dudu also said Indian company BHEL, which has been awarded a contract to set up Rampal plant, did not provide UNESCO
with adequate information about the technology and equipment to be used to check environmental affect to the Sundarbans.
The BNP leader called upon people to get united against the government’s stance of Rampal power plant.
Reacting to the prime minister’s remark, that there is adequate scope to doing politics in Bangladesh now, Dudu said there is no normal political atmosphere in the country now as they cannot freely hold any meeting and rally.
Dudu also slammed the government for showing arrested Gazipur City Corporation mayor MA Mannan in a fresh case after he got bail in all the cases filed against him. “We strongly condemn and protest the government’s move.”
He also said that his party does not want mid-term election but fresh polls.
BNP central leader, Ahmed Azam Khan, Mujibur Rahman Sarwar, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Taiful Islam Tipu and Munir Hossain, among others, were present in the briefing.
