Bangladesh, Oct. 23 -- People have been struggling with the soaring prices of essential commodities while severe gas and electricity supply problems persist, Advocate Matiur Rahman Akanda, a senior member of the Central Executive Council and Publicity and Media Secretary of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has said.

The government is busy with the "character assassination" of the opposition instead of easing public suffering and curbing crime he said at the Kishoreganj District Jamaat-e-Islami Rukon (member) conference at a local community center in Park on Thursday.

Akanda said, "So this incident proves that they came to power based on an understanding, through an agreement, and by colluding with a third force they came to power by manipula...