Badal blasts \\\'hide and seek\\\' in defence allocation

Deploring that successive finance ministers were mum over the budgetary allocation for the Defence Ministry, JSD MP Moinuddin Khan Badal has demanded explanation for allocating Tk 164.62 billion (Tk 16,462 crore) in the 2014-2015 fiscal for the ministry. ‘It’s become a taboo not to explain where and how the budgetary allocation for the Defence Ministry will be spent on…. this has become a long-time practice. It needs to be stopped. It should be opened to people,’ he said while taking part in general discussion on the FY 2013-2014 supplementary budget. ‘We want our defence to be strengthened. But the Finance Minister must explain how and where the allocated public money will be spent on,’ Badal said. ‘I want to know how much money you’re spending on procuring arms, how much on salary disbursement and how much on building construction,’ he added, according to UNB.