PM acknowledges public sufferings for fuel price hike

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that she fully understands the sufferings of the people due to the recent price hike of fuel oil.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that she fully understands the sufferings of the people due to the recent price hike of fuel oil.

“We can realise the sufferings of the people,” she said while speaking at a meeting with organising secretaries of Awami League from eight divisions at her official residence Ganabhaban.

Sheikh Hasina, the chief of the governing Awami League, assured that her government will surely cut down the fuel oil price when it will come down in the international market.

“We will adjust the prices of fuel oil whenever it comes down in the world market. I have given that directive too,” she said.

PM blamed the Ukraine-Russia war, the sanctions and counter-sanctions for the current economic problems of the country.

“The USA and Russia are the most gainers from the sanctions and counter-sanctions as the prices of US and Russian currencies have increased,” she said.

She also said that middle and lower- middle-class people around the world are the worst sufferers of the war, sanctions and counter-sanctions.

The premier came down heavily on a section of people who increased the prices of everything taking the advantage of war including fuel prices.

“There is a section of businesspeople who hike the prices illogically. There is no reason for raising the prices of everything. But they are doing it," she regretted.

She urged the people to increase production and produce whatever they can. “We are facing problems for import-dependent items.”

Recalling the August 15 bloodshed, she said she wonders why they killed her father, mother and brothers. “What was their fault?"

She said that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman tried to establish a pro-people administration and decentralise the power to the grassroots people.

“It seems that whoever wants to play a role in developing people's lives in this country must have to face a disaster. This is reality," she said.

She said that this is very much unfortunate that whenever people of the country start to live a better life a vested quarter starts to hatch a conspiracy.

“There is a section of people who never wants the welfare of the people,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina said Awami League always believes in democracy, principles and power of the people.