Local government elections are likely to start before the parliamentary elections

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published 11 January, Saturday, 2025 23:02:58
Local government elections are likely to start before the parliamentary elections

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The National Citizens Committee believes that there is a situation to start the process of local government elections before the national parliamentary elections. The organization believes that the government can start it within the next two to three months and simultaneously conduct local government and national elections (process).

National Citizens Committee Central Executive Member Alauddin Mohammad said this in response to questions from journalists at a press conference organized at the National Citizens Committee office in Bangla Motor in the capital on Saturday.

The press conference was organized to demand the withdrawal of the ordinance to increase value added tax (VAT) and supplementary duty on more than a hundred goods and services.

When journalists asked about the National Citizens Committee’s position on the local government elections, Alauddin Mohammad responded.

Stating that basic services like birth certificates and death certificates are being hampered, he said that the local government structure has completely collapsed. This is a very important issue in this situation. They have seen that the government is preparing for the elections. The National Citizens’ Committee also believes that the new Election Commission will demonstrate its capabilities before the national elections. Elections are needed to form a strong local government by considering the local representatives separately from national politics.

Alauddin Mohammad believes that the situation for the election process (to start) is now. He said that the government can start it within the next two to three months and conduct local government and national elections (process) simultaneously.

At the press conference, National Citizens’ Committee Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain demanded the withdrawal of the ordinance to increase customs duties and taxes on more than a hundred products.

He said that the issuance of two ordinances to increase value-added tax (VAT) and supplementary duty will increase inflation and business costs, which will have a negative impact on the standard of living of the common people. It is a natural process for the government to increase the tax base to increase revenue, but while increasing taxes, the government must remember that the standard of living of the common people does not decrease and their suffering does not increase.

Terming the previous government as ‘illegal’ and its economic policies as ‘anti-people looters’, the member secretary of the National Citizens’ Committee said that the people’s livelihood is already in a precarious state. In this situation, the previous illegal government decided to accept a loan of 4.7 billion dollars from the IMF. As you know, an IMF loan is the last resort for any country to obtain a loan. As part of the decision to increase VAT in several stages as a condition for this tough loan, the interim government recently issued these ordinances.

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