Irked by ‘unnecessary’ criticism, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said she will go for a tit-for-tat policy against those criticising the government
relentlessly over the quick rental power plant issue.
“Let the holy Ramadan be over, let the holy Eid passes by, I’ll do that …I’ll do that after open declaration,” she said while delivering her speech at the inauguration programme of 88 AC buses bought under the Indian one-billion dollar credit line at her official residence Ganobhaban.
Describing what will be the tit-for-tat policy, Hasina said the government will stop the production of power after the generation of 3200 MW.
“The present government has inherited this level of power generation from the BNP-Jamaat alliance when it came to power in 2009.
She went won: “I think, we’ll go for that decision, it’ll help people to realise what the present government does for the development of the power generation.”
Hasina said her government, after assuming power, increased the power generation from 3200 MW to 6675 MW through installing 55 various kinds of power generation plants, including the quick rental ones.
The Prime Minister said she wants to see what the critics of quick rental power plants will do when the power generation will come down to 3200 MW again.
“People will then realise what the Awami League government did for them,” she said adding that otherwise the criticism will never end. Hasina also advised the critics to refrain from unnecessary criticism for averting the uncomfortable situation in the near future.
-With The Independent input
