National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has launched a scathing attack on the government regarding the energy market, stating that the administration has completely failed to regulate the LPG cylinder market. Expressing strong condemnation over the latest tariff hike, he demanded the immediate withdrawal of what he termed an "illegal and unreasonable" price increase.
In a statement posted on his official Facebook page on Monday night, November 2, 2026, Nahid Islam asserted that due to government incompetence, 180 million citizens have been held hostage by a handful of corporate importer companies. He emphasized that LPG prices have nearly doubled within just eight months of the administration taking power, with the government failing to offer any logical justification for the repeated tariff escalations.
Read nextPolitics of Truth Will Never Be Defeated: Major (Retd) Akhtaruzzaman Speaks Following Release from Keraniganj Central JailFurthermore, the NCP Convener highlighted severe market distortions, pointing out that LPG cylinders are unavailable anywhere in the country at BERC-fixed rates. He noted that consumers are being forced to purchase cylinders at ৳700 to ৳1,000 above the officially declared price, while neighboring countries continue to sell LPG at nearly half the rate prevalent in Bangladesh.
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