Politicians and academics on Saturday at a discussion said that the economy of the country was facing a serious crisis for criminalisation of politics and mass corruption.
Without removing criminalisation of politics and eradicating mass corruption, the economy of the country could not be saved, they said.
The Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner of the ruling Awami League-led alliance, organised the discussion at the National Press Club titled 鈥楨conomic crisis of Bangladesh, and ways to overcome it鈥�.
The party president, Rashed Khan Menon, chaired the discussion.
Menon said that Bangladesh was facing a serious economic crisis and criminalisation of politics and mass corruption were behind the crisis.
Without stopping criminalisation of politics and mass corruption, the economy of the country could not be saved, Menon said.
Referring to the on-going dollar crisis, Rashed Khan Menon said that inflation was increasing and it increased sufferings of the people.
He also said that people were paying more taxes and facing troubles to run their families for abnormal price hikes of essential commodities.
Former Chittagong University professor Moinul Islam, also an Ekuhsey Padak winning economist,聽聽 read out the keynote paper at the programme where he said that inflation, corruption, inequality, siphoned off money abroad and had destroyed the banking sector of the country.
The wrong decisions of the ruling Awami League government and taking mega projects had created the economic crisis and the reserves of the country reached the lowest level.
General secretary of the Workers Party, Fazle Hossain Badsha, said that his party would wage continuous movements against the failures of the government and establish rights of the common people.
Politburo member of the party Sushanta Das said that the Awami League was following an open market economy by which equality could not be established and it would widen inequality.
