Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday urged the country’s people not to get confused by the deliberate propaganda of communal forces.
“The communal forces that want to see the country as a backward one are carrying out intentional propaganda against the country. I am calling upon the country’s people not to be misled by their propaganda,” he told a press conference at his secretariat office in the capital, reports BSS.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said the Bangladesh government has taken various precautionary measures to address the negative impacts of Russia-Ukraine war, economic blockade and the price hike of oil, gas and fertilisers in international market.
Many countries across the globe are struggling to deal with intolerable and skyrocketing inflation, while the inflation rates in the developed world are showing the severity of the global economic setback, he said.
The AL general secretary said there was inflation in Bangladesh was 7.56 percent in last June, while it was 9.1 percent in the United States, 9.4 percent in the United Kingdom, 8.9 percent in Germany, 15.9 percent in Russia, 78.6 percent in Turkey, 9.4 percent in the Netherlands, 39.9 percent in Sri Lanka and 21.3 percent in Pakistan.
Many are trying to mislead people inside the country by talking about inflation, he said, adding that the inflation remains at the relatively tolerable level in the country after the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government took precautionary measures to contain it.
He said an identified quarter is spreading propaganda saying that a power and energy crisis grips in the country. In fact, he said, the world's energy supply chain has become volatile at the time of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war after the global Coronaviraus pandemic.
