The Tenants' Council of Bangladesh says that market prices of daily necessities have been hiked just before Ramadan.
Prices of different commodities are spiralling out of control every day leaving regular, low and middle income people in severe sufferings.
The council said this from a human chain they formed in front of the National Press Club in the capital around 11:30 am on Saturday. The programme was called to protest the recent rise in prices of essential commodities.
Speaking on the occasion, Sultan Bahar, President of the Tenants' Council, told the media that the whole nation has become helpless due to the dishonest business syndicates.
The tenant council claimed that in the market, miniket rice is 75 to 80 taka, bottled soybean oil is 140 to 145 taka per liter, broiler chicken is 160 taka per kg, Pakistani or golden chicken is 350-360 taka, beef is 600 taka per kg, mutton is 900 taka and Rui fish is being sold at 300 to 350 taka.
President of the Tenant Council said that WASA's proposal to increase the price of water was hurting the people already in a loss from the pandemic. The proposal to increase the price of water at such a time is inhumane. If the price of water is increased, there will be instability in daily necessities and house rent.
The central leader of the organization, Md. Mostafa told the media that due to the increase in the prices of almost all the daily necessities, the working people are being forced to live on empty stomachs.
Expressing solidarity with the human chain, Murshidul Haque, convener of the Tele Consumers Association of Bangladesh (TICAB), told reporters that as the country’s per capita income has increased, the expenditure per capita has also increased. Low-income people end up buying all daily necessities spending almost all of their income.
The central leaders of the organization Jamal Sikder, Tuhin Chowdhury, Rokhsana Bahar and others were also present at the human chain.
