Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Mohammad Kamal Hossain from Dhaka-5 constituency demanded that gas supply be ensured or billing stopped if gas is unavailable. He made the statement on Thursday during the general discussion of the 13th National Parliament’s budget session. Hossain said that although his area has gas lines, residents are not receiving gas, causing severe hardship for households. He added that citizens are paying city corporation taxes but not receiving adequate services.

Earlier in the same session, opposition MP Salah Uddin from Gazipur-4 alleged that an honest deputy commissioner, Sarowar Alam, was withdrawn from Sylhet to promote corruption. He also claimed that Tk 17 crore is being embezzled weekly from the school feeding program and that new corruption reports are emerging daily in canal excavation projects.

Kamal Hossain further stated that corruption has reached such a level that bribes ranging from 10 to 15 percent are being calculated on calculators.