The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, Murshed Murad Ibrahim, has urged the opposition to find an alternative to hartal in future for the sake of smooth economic activities and country's economic development.
'Hartal called by some opposition allies including the main opposition BNP will stagnate our economy, investment, trade and commerce, export and import and will make our daily life unstable,' he said in a statement on Thursday.
In this context, he said hartal was a democratic right of every political party but in the name of hartal no one expected any destruction in the normal life of people.
Terming hartal suicidal to the country he said such programme would hamper the normal export-import activities of the port, raise the price of raw materials and finally it would make overall industrialisation of the country uncertain.
The price of the imported goods for the upcoming Ramadan will increase. As a result, the people of the country will be affected because of being their purchasing power decreased, he said.
The CCCI president also said the frequent hartal of the opposition would lead to rejection of the foreign import orders.
By giving statistics, Mur-shed said they were incurring a loss of about Tk. 1,000 crore in every hartal which was increasing day by day.
Source : New Age
