AL hails proposed budget

Leaders of Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies on Thursday held processions and rallies at various wards and thanas in the city hailing the proposed national budget for fiscal 2023-24, reports UNB.
They welcomed the proposed budget and termed it as pro-people, development-oriented and people-friendly.
AL Dhaka City South unit brought out a procession from in front of the party's central office on Bangabandhu Avenue which paraded different city streets.
Led by AL Dhaka South City unit president Abu Ahmed Mannafi, the procession was joined, among others, by its Vice Presidents Hedayetul Islam Swapan and Dilip Roy, General Secretary Humayun Kabir, Joint General Secretary Mohiuddin Mahi, Organizing Secretaries Golam Ashraf Talukdar and Golam Sarwar Kabir.
Noting that the budget is a 'self-reliant budget to save lives and livelihoods', the AL leaders said that the government has given a realistic and time-befitting budget by prioritizing lives and livelihoods in the time of crisis.