BNP spreading propaganda over electricity: Quader

FE Team | Published: August 03, 2022 00:24:15

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) continues spreading propaganda and falsehood over power and energy to hide its own failure, reports BSS.
"BNP's continuous propaganda and lying about electricity and energy are nothing but an effort to conceal its own failure (while in power)," he said in a statement.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said though the BNP leaders want to easily forget their past, the country's people remember it.
During the BNP regime, he said, there was 13-14-hour load-shedding when the country plunged into darkness, he said.
The AL general secretary said the BNP leaders handed over the country's precious mineral resources to their foreign masters to come to state power and they deceived the nation by installing poles only in the name of electricity supply.
To keep Hawa Bhaban and Khoab Bhaban, alternative centres of power, illuminated, BNP kept the whole country in darkness, he said.
Leaving the dark time behind, Quader said, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has gifted the country's people an illuminated Bangladesh.
In addition to this, she achieved an unprecedented success in all socio-economic indexes, which was appreciated at world level, he said.
The Sheikh Hasina government has made a revolutionary success in the power and energy sector, the road transport minister said, adding that when the AL came to power through a landslide victory in the December 2008 elections, the country's per capita power generation was 220 kilowatt and now it stands at 560 kilowatt.
He said only 47 per cent people of the country had access to electricity in 2009 but now cent percent people have been brought under electricity coverage.
At the beginning of 2009, Bangladesh's power generation was 3,267 megawatt but at present, it increased to 25,566 megawatt, Quader said.
"Not only this, the number of power consumers was 10.08 million in 2009. But it reached 40.27 million until April 2022. Feeling jealous for this success of the government, BNP is indulged in shameless falsehood and propaganda," he added.