UNB :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday termed the hike in fuel price and transport fares an ‘arranged game’ of the government to “pick public pockets”.
“This is a pocket-cutting government whom people call a pocket picker. It’s always picking public pockets by increasing the prices of essential items,” he said.
Speaking at a human-chain programme, the BNP leader also said the government first took steps to cut public pockets by raising the prices of diesel and kerosene. “It did the same thing for the second time by increasing bus fares. These’re their tricks and sort of arranged games.”
BNP’s Dhaka South and North city units arranged the human chain programme in front of the Jatiya Press Club in protest against the fuel price hike.
