Consumers are struggling to buy these products in the inflation market, they say, the government should take effective steps along with the monitoring of the market.
On August 21, the representatives of the anti-discrimination student movement held a meeting with the Bangladesh Competition Commission.
In the meeting, the student of the Public Administration Department of Dhaka University. Bin Itamin Mollah said that the price of salt oil should be Tk 120 per liter, sugar at Tk 90 per kg and potato at Tk 25 per kg.
If you want to know about this, Md. Bin Ilamah Mollah said, ‘We demanded that those who are the accomplices of the last dictatorial government should resign after the ultimatum to reduce the commodity prices, and then the competition commission's chairman Pradeep Ranjan Chakraborty is not in his position.
He said, ‘It's been two months since the new government came, but the main need of the people of our country, to reduce the price of goods, this gala but no significant change has come. So people who gave so much life, blood, how their expectations were fulfilled?’ No result is coming.’
When asked about the price of the product, Mamun Ahmed, a private employee who came to the market in Gulshan-2 area of the capital, said to Kal Kantha, "White potato is 65 taka per kg. It was not about 25 to 30 taka. Earlier, this potato was more than doubled. But now there is no potato in the market, there is a shortage of potatoes, the price is high. It can't be done in this regard now."
The consumers say that the businessmen have reduced the prices of daily commodities for the first two weeks after the new government came to power, but as soon as they crossed, the business syndicates are changing their colors and are doing the same as before, but the government is not taking effective action.
The vice president of the consumer association of Bangladesh (CAB) SM Najer Hossain said that the syndicate is coming in a new form in the market. The price of the product was a little lower for two weeks after August 5. After August 5, the businessmen realized that the current government will not do much with the business of the businessmen.
Importers are talking about the price of sugar, the government should pay 40 to 42 rupees with all types of VAT-tax per kg of sugar, which has increased the price of imported sugar, on the other hand, they are under pressure due to the smuggling sugar from India, resulting in pressure on the price of sugar.
