BNP demands fund of Tk 87,000cr to tackle coronavirus crisis

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has proposed the government to announce an incentive package of Tk 87,000 crore targeting different classes to tackle and overcome the economic crisis due to the coronavirus situation.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the proposal on behalf of the party in a press conference at the party chairperson’s office in the capital’s Gulshan on Saturday.

The present coronavirus crisis is not only risky for human life but also it will bring serious catastrophe to the country’s economy and the common and working-class people would be worst affected due to the crisis, he said.

‘For this, we are proposing the government to take some short term, mid, and long term proposals. We hope that the government will consider the proposals and implement them,’ he said.

He said that the government had already taken some initiatives and that his party thought that the initiatives were not adequate to tackle and overcome the crisis.

‘For this, we demand announcement of incentive package of three per cent of Gross Domestic Product worth Tk 87,000 crore,’ he said.


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