PMs comments influenced by ad campaign: Natl Committee
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National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas-Mineral Resources and Power-Port in a statement on Saturday reacted to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinas remarks on Rampal coal-fired power plant project that she made in her address to the nation, reports UNB.
In a statement, National Committees convener Engr. Shahidullah and member secretary Prof Anu Mohamnmad said the PM unfortunately made her statement being influenced by the advertisement campaign of the concerned company.
As a result, her statements become exaggerated containing wrong information, the leaders of the national committee said in their statement. Initially, the committee had been optimistic when it heard the PM would make a statement through press conference about the Rampal power plant, said the statement.
We thought she would cancel the project to save the Sundarbans. But the prime minister uttered the same things which we already refuted with counter-arguments, said the statement of the national committee
Responding to the PMs question about the source of financing of the anti-Rampal movement, the leaders said it has been funded by the hard-earned money of the masses, in a similar fashion that they funded many historic movements of the country like the Language Movement, movements of the Sixties, mass-uprisings and the Liberation War.
They said the PMs statement has reflected the voice of those people who are campaigning in favour of Rampal after being hired.
The youths are the main force of the movement to protect the Sundarbans and they gather in the movement upholding the spirit of the Liberation War, said the statement.
The leaders, however, said the statement of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia regarding the Rampal power plant was also misleading.
