Courtesy New Age 29/6/08
BNP and AL are bent upon having early election, obviously to return to power and wipe out their past sins. If they cannot come to power they will even lose all the money they looted. All the talks of caretaker government are drowned by the parties’ demand for election. Why should the party bosses sign their death warrant!
But why should the smaller leaders and well-wishers of democracy in the parties object to reform? Because they lack courage and like sheep are too afraid to challenge the wolves in the parties. This is the quality of people who ruled us for 15 years. These sheep will jump out of the fence to the winning side finally. The wolves in the parties are waiting in shades of foreign land or in local jail houses for a chance to impart a crushing blow to the present government or perhaps adopt softer ways of compromise, if any.
The present caretaker government seems to realise this. On the one side, there is the commitment for holding elections and on the other side, is the programme of completing the reform process which includes all major institutional changes and the preventive anti-corruption drive. If election comes first, the wolves will have an easy opportunity to prey on the rest of the good people who are the last hope of the nation. This can never be allowed to happen. Surprisingly, the armed cadres of the wolves also appear to be mostly intact.
After all, the applause for the caretakers is heard no more. Some think this is because of the sheepishness of the government. But the most damaging was the handling of Sheikh Hasina’s release which sent a wrong signal to the people. Releasing one of the accused leaders is not a matter of national importance but the importance derives from the unprecedented meeting some advisers held breaking all protocol with an accused person on parole.
The caretakers must realise the vested interest had grown for 15 years and it consolidated into a very strong force during the last five years. They are up against these evil forces –– indeed, the whole nation is –– without realising the extent of the strength of these evil forces. These evil forces are everywhere and will try to turn the tide in their favour to be able to save themselves and grow, again in the very name of democracy. This is how they fooled the whole nation for years and deprived the people of progress they deserved.
The caretakers have finally crossed the Rubicon and there is no going back. By announcing the local government election they have taken the battle to the countryside. Here the grassroots workers and local leaders will decide their own fate and not the party bosses from the capital.
Against all odds this government is fighting to establish rule of the people. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime and destiny has thrust this sacred errand upon the caretakers and their supporters. We all will be part of this history written in golden letters and the fallen culprits should be thrown into the dustbin of history as has been done for centuries.
Momin Haq
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