Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told the Jatiya Sangsad that her
government was determined to extract oil and gas from the Bay of Bengal
ignoring opposition of some pressure groups, who, she said, "don't want
development of the country and expansions of industries."
"We will definitely extract gas whatever the difficulties," she said
responding to a supplementary question of Enamul Haque MP during the weekly
question-answer session in the House. Speaker Advocate Abdul Hamid was in the
chair.
Sheikh Hasina said, "We are making arrangements to extract gas again from
the blocs. Many are opposing the move. But we will do whatever is required for
the development of the country. "
"They don't want the country to develop. They don't want that electricity
production goes up," she said in an indirect dig at the National Committee
on Protection of Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources and Power and Port-a pressure
group of left-leaning professionals and politicians.
"Our main objective of our government is to ensure development of the
country and for this, the government would go for exploration and lifting of
natural gas whatever may be the obstacle created by any quarter," she
said.