BNP gives entire credit to people for Bangladesh’s elevation to lower-middle income country

The BNP has given all credit to the people of Bangladesh for the country’s elevation to the lower-middle income category as per the World Bank index.

“It has been achieved due to the people’s efforts. The government has done nothing to get applause,” party’s spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said at a media briefing in Dhaka on Thursday.

The reaction came a day after the global lender said Bangladesh had become a lower-middle income country with its Gross National Income per capita (GNI) joining those with annual incomes of $1,046 to $4,125.  

The BNP boycotted the last general polls and unleashed widespread violence on many occasions for which the economy had to bear the brunt.

BNP leader Ripon noted that the women were working on three shifts and the people were protecting livestock braving flood while the young people, returning from abroad, were trying to stand on their own feet to achieve the economic progress.

“They are doing all these on their own,” he said.

He alleged the country could have achieved the status long ago had the ruling party not indulged in ‘looting’.

“There’s no investment in the government sector,” he claimed, “There’s corruption everywhere.”