Staff Correspondent

Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan today said the government is conscious about discrimination and reasonable demands of the people working in various sectors, but it will take time to eliminate unfairness.

“We are conscious enough about justified claim of the agitating people … We are also aware of the discrimination happened in different sectors over the last 16 to 17 years …but it will take time to wipe out those unfairness,” said the adviser after visiting Dhaka Medical College to meet students, including Anti-Discrimination Student Movement Coordinator Hasnat Abdullah, who were injured in the attack by Ansar members in front of Secretariat yesterday night.

Kabir said: “Like the paddy harvesting season, now people have started assembling on the street with various demands.”

He, however, said every demand is related to financial integration and it will raise the government’s expenditure.

” The government’s revenue will not increase overnight, so how the government will fulfill their demands within short time”, he said.

Pointing at the demonstrators, the advisor said “We are agreed to discuss if they come in formal way.”

Terming the mandate of the incumbent government as ‘very strong’, the power, energy and mineral resources advisor said the students and mass people have established the government by sacrificing their blood on the street.

“So, there is no scope to underestimate this government”, he added.

Law, Justice and Parliament Affairs Advisor to the Interim government Dr Asif Nazrul was also present during the visit.