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Dear Dr. Musharraf and Habib
I agree to Mr. Habib that a party like Jago Bangladesh can never give us a true democracy. They never can stop the tradition of cult of personality, but they can increase it though. Why ? This has to be explained. None of us want cult of some personality. But befor that , we have to define which is cultism, which is not. What the cultism derives from ? Does this happen suddenly ? No. The bottom line here is a true democratic culture that does no exist in Bangladesh. But, why. Many of those who are crying about these(I am also cent person sympathiser of their concerns), and are writing article or column about these, they often forget the historical perspective for the reasons of these present scenario. They often forget or want to forget that Bangladeshi Army establishment had been in power almost 16 years in Bangladesh. During that time, they destroyed all the democratic institutions of the country. They did not let the political culture to grow up.
Conscious people know that when Zia was in power, he started the evil politics of breaking the main stream parties and creating some domestic pet parties. Actually, this process started with Ayub Khan, who created Convention Muslim League. We know the consequence of Convention Muslim Leage. Jago Bangladesh and Progressive Democratic Party are that kind of domestic pet parties. Any truely conscious person knows that they are being backed by this govt. Several incidents in the daily newspaper evidence the goverment's favor to these parties. The intention is very clear.
Zia had done this. Ershad had done the same thing. Can we get true participatory and decentralised democracy from parties who are born the colaboration or patronization of army bureaucrats and who have no base or relation in the grass root level ?
Hypothetically, if this govt. is able to break and attract some groups from the mainstream parties and use them to compete against the big parties in the election in order for implementing so-called 'reform' or ending 'cultism', will these broken big parties and rootless parties like Gonoforum, PDP be able to form a strong govenment ? No. That will be a very weak govt which can either die very soon or they will not be able to contribute in any important policy making matter. And this will be the Military establishment who will be playing the key role from behind. What will be the consequence ? We are seeing this at this moment. This govt. already has taken decision for coal-mining with open-system method and going to give permission to the forign company, without any parliamentary procedure; already has given permission for dimensional land survey to foreign company even it is unlawful. These are the examples of
unaccountability-same thing will happen when a weak govt. will be formed by some rootless parties who will be brought to power by the help of army.
Mr. Musharraf was concerned about cult of personality. But, we have to think also how can we solve this. There is no short-cut solution for this, as the problem had been created in a long term process. The army and civil bureaucrats and businessmen had been coming in politics for long time, the students were corrupted by the army intelligence. Instead of going in movement for a scietific education policy, for the real issues of students, or for combatting against commercialisation of education or so on, the student leaders are involved in partisan politics or for politics of taking over tenders by force. These staff had been started and taught by Zia and Ershad and millitary intelligence . Now this military bureaucrats are involved in destroying our forest wealth and other resources, thus selling the country-the purpose what they were broght for by the foreign powers.
Engr. Rabiul Islam, New York
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