Rizvi criticises interim government for shutting down some factories
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Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has criticised the interim government for shutting down factories and mills belonging to Sheikh Hasina's business allies by creating fresh unemployment.
Some businessmen who were supporters of fascist Hasina government laundered huge amounts of money from the country. And, thousands of workers were employed in those factories and business companies.
“But after the fall of the Hasina administration, it wasn’t wise to terminate the employees and shut down factories and mills. Rather the interim government should have saved the industries and set administrators and capable manpower to run those factories,” he added while at a news conference held at BNP headquarters in Nayapaltan.
“Bring them to justice those who laundered money, helped the previous regime to sustain. But making the employees, including the skilled manpower and highly educated workforce, graduated engineers jobless –wasn’t a right policy,” he added.
He said those at the conference organized to brief the BNP’s May Day event. Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the labour wing of BNP, will organise the rally on Thursday.
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will address the rally as the chief guest virtually and speak on the current labor situation and contemporary national politics.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with top national leaders and labor leaders will speak at the workers' rally.
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) of Bangladesh, 73.5 million out of 120 million voters are workers, he said in a written statement, adding during the past fascist era, workers were pushed away from organizing and free trade union rights.
As many as 71 leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Workers' Party, 30 rickshaw workers and countless known and unknown floating workers have been martyred in the student-worker-people uprising against discrimination, he added.
Due to the looting and corruption of the fallen Hasina government, government jute and sugar mills have been closed and thousands of workers have become jobless.
Although the minimum wage and national wage scale are announced every 5 years according to the conventional rules, the minimum wage and national wage scale have not been announced for more than 10 years during the previous fascist Hasina government.