Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA), a platform of leading anti-tobacco organisations working in Bangladesh, has staged a demonstration in front of the National Museum in Dhaka on Thursday (June 16) protesting tobacco companies’ intervention over tobacco tax.
The protest programme was organised under the theme ‘How many more corpses are needed to increase the tobacco tax?’
BATA’s Acting Coordinator Helal Ahmed presided over the programme, while Network Officer of Work for a Better (WBB) Trust Aazim Khan moderated it, which was arranged to press home the demand-- imposition of effective tax on tobacco products in the proposed budget for 2022-2023 fiscal year.
Country Manager of Vital Strategies Nasir Uddin Sheikh, Project Coordinator of NATAB Khalil Ullah, Project Director of AID Foundation Shagufta Sultana and Project Officer Abu Naser Anik, Syeda Anonna Rahman of WBB Trust, Rokeya Begum of TABINAZ, Project Officer of Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) Adut Rahman Emon, Project Officer of Bureau of Economic Research (BER) at Dhaka University Ibrahim Khalil, Project Officer of MANAS Abu Rayhan, Executive Director of SCOPE Kazi Enayet Hossain, Chairman of Intergraded Development (IDF) Shafiul Azam, Chairman of Narayanganj Nari Kallyan Sangstha Rahima Akhter Liza, Executive Director of Nabonita Mohila Kallyan Samiti Atika Hossain, Shamima Sultana, Tanvir Hossain Khan and Md Mahbub Alam Firoz were present at the programme, among others.
