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Finance minister and gas

19 July 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By A.K.M. Saifuddin On e-mail
19 July 2005, 18:00 PM
Our outspoken finance minister has blasted his fellow countrymen for wasting precious gas to save a mere match stick, and also the practice that some people use it to dry cloths. He is certainly a wise man and he knows it is totally unwise to cast pearl before the swine. Now he has come up with a plan to stop the supply of gas through pipeline to houses and instead supplying it in cylinder, which will naturally be more expensive. What a way to teach the "swine".

It is okay for him if Niko burns up a total gas field and causes irreparable loss to ecology and environment of the area, if his fellow minister forces Bapex to pay more to Niko.

Our honourable finance minister has a habit of saving the big guys and picking the common people. He has imposed new tax on mobile Sim card. He could easily charge the mobile companies. If he had the intention of slashing call rate, he could take steps to make the call charge of the state owned mobile TeleTalk some 0.30 or 0.50 taka per minute so that others are forced to follow suit.

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But no! He will find graft in everything and anything. He will call government employees thieves to get cheap limelight and has no prescription to remedy any of it. All he knows is to take money from common people's pockets.