No politics over rice, warns Food Minister

Staff Correspondent: Food Minister Quamrul Islam asked the mill owners and businessmen to stop doing politics over rice in the country.

Issuing a note of warning to rice millers, he said, "Some people are involved in creating an artificial rice crisis to embarrass the government. Still, there’s time. Stop doing politics over the issue."

The minister said this while speaking at a press briefing at Bangladesh Secretariat on Thursday.

Alongside, he urged media people to stop reporting on rice price hike which creates confusion among people.

The government will open the OMS service from Sunday next across the country where one kg rice will be sold at Tk 15 while wheat at Tk 17, the Minister said.
 

risingbd/Dhaka/September 14, 2017/Asad/A K Azad