The main opposition Awami League straightway rejected the proposed budget for the 2005-06 fiscal year, terming it ‘daydreaming, deceiving and unrealistic’. ‘It is an unrealistic and daydreaming budget and will bring nothing good to the people,’ the Awami League’s Economic Cell chairman, Abul Mal Abdul Muhit, told a news briefing.In his instant reaction on behalf of the party after the finance and planning minister, M Saifur Rahman, had tabled the budget Thursday afternoon, Muhit found nothing new and anything better for the low-income group people in it. ‘It is simply anti-people.’ The business leaders expressed mixed reaction about the proposed budget for the next fiscal.The proposed budget does not have measures that may affect local industries or their export competitiveness, said president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Abdul Awal Mintoo.
