Padma Bridge deal aimed at plundering public money: BNP

BNP alleged Wednesday that the government has struck a deal with a Chinese company to construct Padma Bridge in a bid to loot public money.
“The government has inked an agreement with China to construct the Padma Bridge as a measure to steal public money,” said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, according to a news agency.
The BNP leader came up with the remark while addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club arranged by National People’s Party (NPP) protesting the ‘continued killings, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings’.
Earlier, Tuesday, the government signed a formal deal with China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd to construct the Padma Bridge.
Fakhrul alleged that the World Bank pulled out itself from the Padma Bridge project as it did not want to give the government any chance to loot money from it. “Now the bridge will be made taking huge money from people.”
He accused the government of resorting to killings, forced disappearances and repressive acts to annihilate its political opponent 19-party alliance.