Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that the proposed budget for 2021-22 fiscal year completely failed to address the true crisis that created the Covid-19 pandemic.

‘The government shows no accountability towards the people, as a result, it did not try to consider the people as poor, ultra-poor and middle-class,’ BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a press conference organised to give the party’s official reaction on proposed national budget of 2021-22 fiscal year.

On Thursday, finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal announced the proposed budget worth over Tk 6 lakh crore tax and duty benefits for businesses but without any specific allocation for people who have newly become poor due to the Covid outbreak.

Fakhrul said that the government made the budget to make those people happy who would help them to continue corruption.

He said that implementation of the proposed budget was impossible and he termed the budget as ‘nothing but a paper-based one’.

‘We want a clear economic agreement to ensure governance and accountability, but this is absent in this proposed budget,’ Fakhrul said.

He said that, in this situation, BNP is giving a commitment to the people to establish a pro-people government through a massive mass movement.