BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a press conference, held at the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Sunday, reports UNB. Rizvi criticized Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque for ruling out the possibility of raising the government's food grain procurement prices, despite the serious resentment among farmers over falling paddy prices. The BNP leader alleged that the government is depriving farmers of fair prices for their produce only to create a scope for ruling partymen to make money. The BNP leader said the government fixed the procurement rate of per maund (40kg) paddy at Tk1,040, but the farmers are being forced to sell their harvest to middlemen at Tk450 to Tk500 per maund. He also urged the government to immediately accept the demands of the jute mill workers.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 19, 2019 13:07 UTC