Socio-economic problem be damned. There is an acute shortage of infrastructure to name after Mujib not to mention a long list of old men to prosecute for crimes committed over 30 years ago.
The plight of this one deshi pales in comparison.
It is in any case a fabrication - in sonar bangladesh, rice is free and everyone is happy. The people love the PM and they care not for such paltry matters. They are already raptured in perpetual happiness as there will soon be an airport named after Mujib.
Shame on you sir for failing to understand what are our basic needs.
Joy Bangla!
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------ Forwarded message ---------- From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:46 PM Subject: RE: The promised 10-taka rice To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> The report of a mother with 9-month-old baby in arms in a chilly breezy morning queuing in the street for 4 hours to buy subsidised rice, which saves her Tk 55, is a scenario of desperate poverty. How does it compare with last Eid's market report about some saris selling at Tk 250,000 each? The disparity may make many sane heads spin. But, the realisation must be there that the socio-economic problem needs to be redressed. Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:37:10 +0600 Subject: The promised 10-taka rice From: bdmailer@gmail.com Pricier the rice, longer the queue Long queues for open-market-sale rice at Kamrangirchar on the outskirts of the capital yesterday, an evidence of how people are in need of grains. Holding her nine-month-old baby in one arm, Salma Khanam braved the chilly morning breeze to buy subsidised rice at the Open Market Sales (OMS) point at Begum Rokeya Sarani in the capital's Mirpur area.She had to wait for more than four hours for her turn. "I am here for the first time. I dared not come here carrying my baby. But I had to change my mind for the soaring prices of rice," said Salma, wife of a bus helper, who earns Tk 5,000 a month.She said they have to pay a house rent of Tk 2,000 a month and spend nearly Tk 500 on food for the baby. Like Salma nearly a hundred men and women waited in queues for hours to buy a 5-kilogram pack of coarse rice for Tk 24 a kg. It saved them at least Tk 55 each as coarse rice now sells at a minimum price of Tk 35 a kg in city markets. Long queues are now longer and more frequent in almost all OMS points with more people from fixed and lower income brackets thronging them to buy subsidised rice to save money for buying other essentials.Nearly 125 OMS trucks with 3,000 kgs of rice each sell subsidised rice to 75,000 people every five days a week while many return home empty-handed in t
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