The National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Power-Port and National Resources will mark the Independence Day with a mass oath to protest what it said handing over the national wealth to foreigners.
The protest will be held on March 26 in front of National Press Club, the committee’s leaders announced on Monday.
Addressing a rally outside National Press Club the leaders said there is no use to make a world record in singing the national anthem when “the national wealth is being handed over to looters.”
The rally was meant to protest power hike, extension of rental and quick rental power plants contracts, leasing out gas blocks to foreign oil companies and setting up coal-fired power plants near Sundarbans forest under joint ventures with India and China.
Criticising Prime Minister’s recent statement in parliament about rental and quick rental power plants, Prof Anu Mohammad said: “We have to protect our national flag, national anthem and national wealth from the hands of the looters”.
Recently, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament that those, who did not get the contracts of quick rental power plants are opposing these projects.
“Please, publish those names in public who pursued, but did not get rental and quick rental power plants,” Anu Mohammad, the member secretary of the committee said.
He said the government hiked the power tariff to cover up the loss of the rental power plants and satisfy their owners.
The committee urged the government to cancel contracts with rental and quick rental power plants, contracts with India and China for coal-fired power plants and PSC with Indian ONGC and American ConocoPhillips.
The rally, followed by a procession, was addressed, among others, by Ruhin Hossain Prince and Jonayed Saki.
Source: UNBConnect
