Activating Tongi Power Station BNP’s only feat that tripped moments later: Joy

Highlighting BNP-Jamaat tenure’s failure and corruption in the country’s power sector, Prime Minister's adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said the only feat BNP achieved in its tenure was activating the operation of Tongi Power Station through overhauling on September 3, 2005.

Its plaque was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia but the power station tripped even before she could reach Abdullahpur in Uttara after inaugurating it, Sajeeb recalled in a Facebook post 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.