, Feb. 26 -- CA's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said on Wednesday energy is the key to economic efficiency and no economy can function optimally without fixing the sector.

Speaking at the 'Development Journalist Forum of Bangladesh (DJFB) Talk' at the NEC Conference Room in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, he criticised the previous Awami League government for mishandling the energy sector, which he claimed led to large-scale corruption and mismanagement.

"The entire system, like the capacity charge, was an arrangement for organized looting," Alam alleged.

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