Tarique pledges 10 million jobs in five years if BNP comes to power
“Unemployment among youth remains a major challenge not only in Dhaka-8 but across Bangladesh, and the BNP has already prepared plans and programmes to address the issue,” he says.
BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has pledged to create employment for 10 million people across the country within five years if his party comes to power.
Addressing an election rally on Pirjangi Mazar Road in the Dhaka-8 constituency today (9 February), he said, "Unemployment among youth remains a major challenge not only in Dhaka-8 but across Bangladesh, and the BNP has already prepared plans and programmes to address the issue."
He added that a BNP government would encourage domestic investors and invite foreign investors to set up industries and factories, which would help address unemployment while strengthening the economy.
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The BNP chief also said vocational, training, technological, and IT institutes would be established in every district to develop skilled human resources, enabling young men and women to secure jobs or create self-employment opportunities within the country.
Tarique noted that many Bangladeshis seeking overseas employment are forced to sell ancestral land due to financial constraints. To address this, he said a BNP government would provide small loans to skilled workers going abroad, allowing them to repay gradually after securing employment, without having to sell family property.
Alongside job creation, he pledged that a BNP government would recruit 1,00,000 healthcare workers nationwide to expand employment opportunities.
Focusing on local development, Tarique promised to build playgrounds, allocate land for graveyards, and take effective measures to address waterlogging in the Dhaka-8 constituency if BNP is elected.
At the end of the rally, he urged locals to elect BNP candidate Mirza Abbas by voting for the party's 'sheaf of paddy' symbol.
