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Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Monday issued a note of caution against the hoarders and market manipulators of essential commodities, saying they would face the music for this unholy job.
“If anyone hoards any goods with bad intentions, we’ll have to take instant action against them through mobile courts, and if needed, they will be sent to jail,” she said in an introductory speech while chairing a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee in her official Ganabhaban residence this evening.
Mentioning that the sudden price hike (of essential items) immediately after the election is very abnormal, Sheikh Hasina said, “It is inevitable to find out who are the manipulators behind this price hike.”
She added, “It’s not only necessary to find them, but also to take instant action against them. We’ll do it in the future.”
The premier urged the countrymen to remain vigilant so that no one can play games with the prices of food items by hoarding and black marketeering.
“There is no meaning to play games with the food items of people,” she said.
Party Praesidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Kazi Zafarullah, Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, its General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader and Central Working Committee Member Abul Hasnat Abdullah, among others, were at the dais.