Planning minister AHM Mostafa Kamal Friday inaugurated electricity connection to 3,183 rural consumers at his constituency Comilla-11 (Sadar South of Nangolkot) which was deprived of electricity until now.
Electricity connection was provided to 20 villages of Adra, Baksganj, Mokra, Doulkhar and Geria unions on the day. Now 1,058 people at Adra, 578 at Jodda, 239 at Mokra, 135 at Bakshganj, 756 at Doulkhar and 146 at Geria will come under rural electrification programme.
There was no power in six remote areas which are located 49 km away from Comilla town.
The minister said, while giving power connection at Mokra, not only his village but all the villages of the country will get power connection.
"The whole constituency will get electricity connection within next six months," he said.
In Jodda union, BNP leader Shariful Islam inaugurated the electricity connection in presence of the minister.
About 200 BNP leaders and activists of Jodda in Nangalkot later joined Awami League on the occasion.
bdnews24.com ass: In a rare display of political bonhomie, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal let a BNP leader inaugurate power connections for 20 villages in his electoral constituency.
The minister said he did it for the sake of political harmony.
On Saturday's programme, just before the power connection inauguration, Kamal asked if there were any BNP leaders present, according to a media statement from the ministry.
When Jodda Union's BNP leader Shariful Islam stepped forward, the minister let him inaugurate electricity connections that would benefit 3,183 consumers in the Comilla-11 constituency.
"There's no place for violence in Bangladesh politics," the statement quoted Kamal as saying.
He was elated that the country had ascended to a lower-middle income category. "We need a change in our political culture to reap benefit of this progress," he added.
At the programme, about 200 activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami's local units joined the Awami League.
According to the ministry's statement, the 20 villages that got power connections are spread across five unions - Adda, Bakshganj, Mokra, Doulkharh, and Peria - and located about 40 kilometres from the city.
Mr Kamal said the government planned to provide power connections to all villages.
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3,183 get access to electricity in Comilla
FE Report | Published: July 05, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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