Dhaka, June 5 -- The BNP on Wednesday strongly criticised the proposed national budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year, calling it "unilateral, conventional, and non-participatory."
The party argued that the budget fails to address key economic challenges such as surging inflation, increasing poverty, and stagnating investment.
"This budget does not reflect a unified national economic vision," said BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury at a press conference held at the party chairperson's office in Gulshan.
"Despite BNP's continued cooperation with the interim government, we had hoped that the budget would be the outcome of dialogue with political stakeholders engaged in the ongoing movement to achieve a national consens...