Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- People struggling to keep up with rising prices of essentials have to spend even more on food. The fallouts from the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war had forced consumers, especially those with fixed incomes, into curbing expenditure to make ends meet over the last few months. With the global crises, the government hiked the fuel price illogically which put a butterfly effect on all essentials, while the absence of market monitoring and allowing middlemen, particularly the ruling party men, to pickpocket pushed the consumers into the corner. There is no respite for the citizens, and any governance and support for the fixed-income and informal workers and the unemployed.

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