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Price hikes make life miserable

Hasina at 6-point day programme

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Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government's placing the budget before parliament is a 'mere eyewash', as it has already hiked up prices of all essentials including fuel.
"The spiralling prices of essentials have made people's lives miserable," she said, addressing a discussion marking the historic Six-Point Demand Day at Engineers Institute auditorium.
Hasina, also the AL president, slammed the government for its 'failure' to contain the price hike and curb the rampant crime across the country.
"While commoners struggle to have even a meal a day, family
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FROM PAGE 16 members of the ministers are engaged in plundering the state's wealth," she alleged.
Besides, the AL chief once again accused the government of killing AL leaders and activists in the name of 'crossfire'.
"The BNP-Jamaat alliance is killing the AL men to avenge its [Jamaat-e-Islami] ignominious defeat in 1971," she observed.
Referring to Gias Hazarika's death in 'crossfire', she said, "Had he been interrogated, some of the ruling coalition ministers' involvement in crime would have been disclosed."
She also said the current situation of the country is alarmingly similar to that during the then East Pakistan.
The former prime minister alleged that the ruling party cadres in concert with police yesterday foiled the Chehlum of Dud Mia, who was killed in 'Rab (Rapid Action Battalion) custody'.
She urged the countrymen to unite in opposition to the ruling four-party alliance and force it to step down.
Speaking at the discussion, AL Presidium Member Tofail Ahmed said the 'state-sanctioned terrorism' has turned the country into a 'valley of death'.
Amir Hossain Amu, another member of the AL Presidium, said the country's independence was not gained through a mere declaration, rather 1952's Language Movement and then the Six-Point Demand had culminated in the glorious Liberation War.
Dr Harun-ur-Rashid, dean of social science faculty in Dhaka University (DU), read the keynote paper titled 'June 7 in the context of autonomy to independence'.
AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil, Presidium Members Motia Chowdhury, Sajeda Chowdhury, DU Teachers Association President AAMS Arefin Siddique, former vice chancellor of DU Prof AK Azad Chowdhury, city AL President Mohammad Hanif and General Secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya also spoke at the discussion.