Bangladesh, June 30 -- Opposing surplus power generation by giving subsidy to rental power plants with public money, BNP on Tuesday alleged that the government is only "crushing" people imposing additional expenditure on them in the name of development.

"The helpless middle-class people are screaming under the pressure of ghost electricity bills. They (govt) are saying 3,000 megawatts of surplus electricity is being generated more than the demand and most of which produced at quick-rental plants," said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

He further said, "It means the government has to pay the rental power plants and buy electricity from them at higher prices giving subsidy with public money. So, what kind of developme...