, June 4 -- BNP on Wednesday described the proposed national budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year as 'unilateral, traditional and non-participatory' and said it fails to offer concrete strategies to address long-standing economic vulnerabilities, including soaring inflation and rising poverty.

"BNP has been cooperating with the interim government in every possible way. We expected that the interim government would formulate the budget through discussions with the political parties involved in the movement to establish a minimum level of national consensus," BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdury told a press conference.

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