DHAKA: Accusing the government for draining country’s food storage by looting, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said a famine like the great famine of 1974 is imminent as the ongoing food crisis of the country is becoming dreadful everyday.

He made the remarks in a press conference at the BNP headquarters in city’s Naya Paltan area on Thursday (July 6).

Rizvi said the northeast of the country is flooded due to heavy rainfall and upstream water. People are suffering from poverty and hunger. The Prime Minister said there are enough relief goods for flood-hit people, but in reality people are desperately wailing for relief. Government is distributing little wheat here and there which is nothing but a cruel joke for flood-hit people.

He alleged that the deficiency of state food storage overwhelmingly proves the plunder done by the ruling party men. Government has started to import rice, salt and many other things to tackle the situation. It seems that a famine is knocking on the door. 

Rizvi also alleged that abduction, political detention and extra judicial killings have risen at alarming rate since Awami League government acquired power in 2009. He said that the recent abduction and rescue of noted poet, writer and political commentator Farhad Mazhar was nothing but a drama staged by AL that traumatized the whole country.

BDST: 1445 HRS, JULY 6, 2017
AP