Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhit has said that expatriate Bangladesh voters will get the opportunity to vote in the next election.
He said at a seminar on Expatriates’ Role in National Development at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in the capital on Wednesday.
The Finance Minister said, there will be opportunity to vote in the next election for expatriate Bangladeshi voters of some countries like Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
Economic Relation Division of the Finance Ministry organized the seminar titled ‘Engagement of Non-Resident Bangladeshi in National Development: Strategies, Challenges and Way Forward’.
Abul Mal Abdul Muhit said, the government is taking special initiative to provide opportunity for the Bangladeshi expatriates to cast their votes in the next national election. To facilitate voting the government is considering the matter of setting up special centers in the places where the most expatriates are living.
Finance Minister said, next budget could be my last budget. In this budget the government is taking initiative to increase the tenure of incentives for one year for making the expatriates eager to invest.
He said, we should remember that with the remittances our economy is in good shape. So, we should not call them ‘labor’.
The seminar was presided over by Secretary of Economic Relation Division Kazi Shafiqul Azam. Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Dr. Namita Haldar, UNDP Bangladesh Country Director Sudipto Mukharjee, former UN official Dr. AK Abdul Momin and others were present in the program.
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