It's time for us to show cruel love: Debapriya Bhattacharya

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Commenting that it's time for us to show cruel love, economist and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Honorary Fellow Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya said, there are two parts to reforms, one is the accumulated reforms which should have been reformed by the previous government. The second is what we will do to move towards a middle-income country. If the economic situation does not get relief, we will be hindered in moving towards institutional reforms or elections.

He said these things at a dialogue titled 'Dialogue for Democratic Reconstruction; Economic Policy Issues' organized by the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) at BIISS on Saturday (October 26) afternoon.

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Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya said, when the state becomes a crony, the ones who are supposed to play the biggest role are you who play a role in creating employment. Then why did those upper class people fail to create a democratic system?

We need to focus on real wages, determine the fair price of goods. Our economic system will determine when we will move towards institutional reforms or elections, he commented.

This economist said, the discussion about reforms is a discussion of the superstructure. But the foundation below is the economy. The economy will determine how we will move forward. Have you ever heard from the citizens who have worked, what will happen to the landless people? I do not see this discussion of paying fair prices for agricultural products among them (the government).

He said, if we think that the interim government, even though they came through a mass upsurge, will solve everything with the help of foreigners. If we live in such a wrong world, then it is wrong to make a revolution. Here, everyone has to fulfill their responsibilities. Especially, we, the people of the upper echelons, should be able to correct and highlight to our new generation the mistakes that we, the people of the upper echelons, have made.