Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has alleged that the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 has been presented for the collection of sugarcane by the government and its supporters. The party says this budget was not presented for the welfare of the people. The hope that the finance minister gave in his budget speech titled ‘Pledge to Build a Happy, Prosperous, Advanced and Smart Bangladesh’ in the National Parliament on June 6 has nothing to do with the reality. What he said about Bangladesh as happy and rich is completely imaginary. He is living an extremely difficult life due to bank robbery and stock market scams, money laundering abroad and unbridled government sponsored corruption. It cannot be called a happy and prosperous Bangladesh.
Jamaat’s Secretary General Professor Mia Golam Parwar said these things in a virtual press conference to give Jamaat’s response to the proposed budget on Monday.
Golam Parwar said that the budget has given an opportunity to whiten black money by paying 15 percent tax. This decision is not acceptable from moral and economic point of view. This action of the finance minister is discriminatory in terms of social justice.
Pointing out that the target of borrowing Tk 2 lakh 56 thousand crore has been fixed in the budget, Prof. Mia Golam Parwar said that it is not possible for the government to implement this huge debt-dependent budget.
Jamaat’s Publicity and Media Department Secretary Advocate Matiur Rahman Akander moderated the press conference and the party’s Assistant Secretary General Maulana Rafiqul Islam Khan, Dhaka Metropolitan South Amir Nurul Islam Bulbul, North Amir Md. Salim Uddin and others.