BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has commented that the government is playing the biggest pocket role by imposing the burden of tax on the people in the proposed fiscal year 2017-18 fiscal year.

He said this budget has been given to cut the pockets of the people and only to inflate the pocket of the government people. That's the reality, that's the truth.Fakhrul said this while briefing the Iftar-e-East organized by Rangpur Medical College Nationalist Alumni Kalyan Parishad in the family world granddaughter of Assadgate in the capital on Tuesday.Criticizing the ruling party, the BNP secretary general said, "The government has deliberately destroyed the economy of the country, has ruined the state structure, destroyed all pillars of democracy. The objective is to make Bangladesh a dependent country.