Keep garment sector above politics: BGMEA
By Staff Reporter
The New Nation, Bangladesh
Country’s garment factory owners on Tuesday urged the political parties to keep the RMG sector free from any kind of political programmes in their election manifesto.
President of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) SM Fazlul Huq demanded it at a press conference held at his office. Former President of the organisation Annisul Huq and Tipu Munshi, director Lutfur Rahman and Abdus Salam Murshedia were present, among others, on he occasion.
The BGMEA president said, “We cannot wait for a long when the politicians will save the democracy.”
He also announced an owner-workers sit-in programme in front of Bangabhaban from Thursday unless the ongoing political deadlock resolved within Wednesday.
Portraying the losses over the blockade programmes he said production of the sector has been totally stopped. Transportation export of finished goods and import of raw materials had stopped. Thus saving of the sector is now responsibility of the Caretaker government, he said.
Annisul Huq said, “We want to continue production…we do not want to be sacrificed for politics.”
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