The
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday demanded cancellation of value added tax
imposed on private universities and medial and engineering colleges.
BNP
spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon at a briefing at the party central office at
Naya Paltan also said that the VAT on the private educational institutions
would be scrapped if BNP was voted to power.
The
government imposed 7.5 per cent VAT on private universities and medical and
engineering colleges for the fiscal year 2015-16.
‘Education
is a fundamental right of every citizen according to the constitution, but it
seems that the government is turning the private educational institutions into
a business,’ he said.
Replying
to comments the ruling Awami League general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam,
made on Saturday, Ripon said that the BNP would never be abolished as its
leaders and activists had the ideology of late president Ziaur Rahman and they
would establish the ideology.
Ashraful
had said that the BNP would be abolished if it did not contest the next general
election.
Ripon
said that the BNP was a pro-election party and it would contest the polls under
a non-party neutral government so that people might exercise their franchise
freely and fairly.
He said that they wanted a fresh general
election as the January 5, 2014 election was not an election at all. (Source:
New Age, August 3, 2015)
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