BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said good governance is yet to come in the country, with no improvement being seen in the police.
He made the comment referring to a businessman who complained that he had to pay more bribes now to get things done.
“If you had to pay Tk 1 lakh in bribes previously, now it’s Tk 5 lakh,” he said while talking at the launch of a book titled “Economy, Governance, and Power: A Portrait of Everyday Life”, written by economist Hossain Zillur Rahman, also a former adviser to the caretaker government.
Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed also attended the event held at the CIRDAP in Dhaka.
Fakhrul said reforms cannot be implemented overnight and that they take time.
He added that democratic practices should not be delayed for the sake of reforms, and that reforms should not be imposed forcefully.
“We must move swiftly towards a democratic process. Reforms must be made by people’s representatives elected through a democratic process,” he added.
