“Tongi Power Station BNP's only achievement that failed shortly after”

The only accomplishment of the BNP-Jamaat administration was the activation of the operation of Tongi Power Station through overhauling on September 3, 2005, said Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy while highlightingthe failure and corruption of the BNP-Jamaat administration in the country's power sector.

The power facility tripped even before then-prime minister Khaleda Zia could go to Abdullahpur in Uttara to officially unveil its plaque, He said in a Facebook post yesterday (September 3, 2022) accompanied by a visual titled "Reform proposal by Mirza Fazrul's quarter: Will BNP revive the power sector that it has destroyed?"

"During their tenure between 2001 and 2006, BNP couldn't add even a single megawatt to the grid. In the name of generating electricity, Tarique's (BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman) cohorts with a Hawa Bhaban syndicate looted billions of bucks by simply erecting electric posts," said the commentary in the video.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir vowed before media that if they came to power, they would change the power sector beyond recognition, according to the video posted on Friday night.