In its official reaction on Sunday, 10 days after Finance Minister AMA Muhith Finance Minister AMA Muhith rolled out a Tk 4 trillion outlay, the biggest in the history of Bangladesh. Speaking to the media at the party chief's Gulshan offices, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on the government to revise down the 15 percent uniform VAT to a 'tolerable level.' He also demanded withdrawal of excise duty on bank deposits. "We find this budget as nothing but a large-scale hoax. The senior BNP leader said it seems to him that the finance minister did not consider welfare goals while formulating the budget.

Source: bd News24 June 11, 2017 11:30 UTC