Price of rice
Recently the government has taken initiative to sell rice in open market at lower price to ease the general people. According to newspapers reports market price of the rice is not going down and every day thousands of people are returning from the OMS centre in empty hand. It is the responsibility for the government to feed the people if they are unable to work, unemployed or poor. But now it is the sympathy of the government to the poor ones. Is it not basic need of the people? People are starving in the northern districts and even the children are keeping fast as an alternative to taking food. They are not getting food for sehri and for iftar whereas our government is making arrangements of some gorgeous iftar mahfil at Sheraton or Sonargaon. What is the source of income of this money spends on iftar? Is it not the revenue from the tax of the people? Who gave them the right to spend this money in such a gorgeous iftar?
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