The plague of Capitalism in Bangladesh ensures an arrangement known as capacity charge which is designed to benefit few political and capitalist elite. This is a guaranteed payment provided to private electricity producers (in addition to their regular wages/payments) whether or not electricity is produced by them.

The Hasina government is desperately moving forward with various schemes to sell the country's interests to Colonialist US in a bid to stay in power. Before the upcoming national election, it is blatantly cooperating with the US in establishing her neo-colonialist agendas in the region. The United States is putting great pressure on the government to quickly sign the ACSA and GSOMIA agreements for which defense and security dialogues were…

The Hasina-government has suspended and later dismissed Mohammod Mahidur Rahman, IMED (Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division) official, along with his research advisor SM Hamidul haque, an additional secretary due to the publication of a research report calling the country's energy and power sector a ‘model of looting’ consisting of unfair capacity charges, supply of power at exorbitant prices and impunity laws for private power plant owners.

On June 1, 2023, Hasina government has unveiled the national budget titled "Towards a Smart Bangladesh after the march of development” for the fiscal year 2023-24. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal placed Taka 7.6 trillion budget which is 13.5 percent bigger than FY 23 with a ‘supposed’ focus on tackling inflation, generating jobs, and efforts towards ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by addressing the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution with 40 new…