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New York, U.S.A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Correct attitude to boost democracy Ripan Kumar Biswas Ripan.Biswas@yahoo.com He used the word 'change' 16 times in his speech, but he gave two paragraphs to Hillary Clinton, whom the crowd greeted with sustained applause. "Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton," Sen. Barack Obama (ILL) valuated Sen. Hillary Clinton's (NY) milestones in her career in front of a rally at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 after clinching the Democratic Party's 2008 nomination for president. It was not just praise for Clinton, but an attempt to revive the Clinton brand. On the other hand, she issued a call for unity that emphasized the cultural and political milestones that she and Obama represent. Amid tears from her supporters, she summoned supporters to use their energy, their passion, their strength to put Barack Obama in the White House at the National Building Museum in Washington on Saturday, June 07, 2008. "I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run," Clinton placed herself solidly behind her Senate colleague from Illinois. According to the White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, President Bush congratulated Sen. Obama as according to his personal experience, presidential nominating process is a grueling one and Sen. Obama came a long way in becoming his party's nominee and his historic achievement reflects the fact that the country has come a long way, too. Also Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain (AZ) called him to congratulate him for becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. The reason to quote the speeches and remarks of the above politicians against their rivals is to mention the respects in politics and respect public opinion in where political sovereignty is retained by the people. According to her lawyers before boarding for US on Thursday, June 12, 2008, Sheikh Hasina, the chief of Awami League (AL), told that if their party would be rewarded the driving seat of the parliament in the next general elections, they would do their best for the general people and strong measures would be taken to uproot the corruption from the soil of Bangladesh. The same she promised in front of a huge crowd and newsmen at Logan International Airport, Boston on Friday, June 13, 2008. "People want the long-stalled parliamentary polls to be held without delay and handover of power to a democratic government," she said. As we all know on October 1, 2001, AL responded to its landslide election defeat by announcing a boycott of parliament by saying that her party would neither take oath as members of parliament nor join the parliament. When Begum Khaleda Zia, chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was in the opposition from 1996 to 2001, she too boycotted parliament. This is not a new to discuss or not a worthy attitude to find negatives all the times. We are not going to cite what were in the main features of AL's Election Manifesto in 2001. Was it talking about the institutionalizing democracy that refers the National Parliament would be the centre of all political activities? Or was it talking about the good governance and administrative reforms that refer corruption-free and people-oriented administration?
In this changing world and modern shape of democracy, people are now very much concerned about how a person or a group or a political entity behaves with each others. To establish a proper balance between the individual, the society, and the government for civilization and human progress, a rationale for politics and an ethic of public behavior are important. In politics, to provide an objective, quantified approach to explaining and predicting political behavior, tact, diplomacy, and hospitality are essential.
How the former Premier was released from prison after an apparent deal between the military-backed interim government and her party to facilitate her treatment overseas, might raise question due procedures of law and order, but the conversation between her and the chief adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed over phone regarding the upcoming polls and her health condition hours after her release, was a good sign of respect against each other. Presence of Bangladesh envoys to UK and US at Heathrow and Logan airport, respectively, to welcome Hasina, was another change of traditional Bangladesh government's attitude towards any of its high profile opposition leader. Although political leaders from different political parties expressed mixed reactions on her release, but people became happy while the former Premier Begum Khaleda Zia expressed satisfaction over the release of her once arch rival opposition leader of the parliament Sheikh Hasina. It is to be noted that Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Sheikh Hsina's son and US based software professional, refused one letter of greetings from Tareq Zia, son of Khaleda Zia, congratulating him on his first arrival in Dhaka with his American wife on Wednesday, December 22, 2008. On humanitarian considerations and a smooth, orderly transition to democratic governance following the promised general elections, the present government would take necessary steps for proper treatment of BNP chairperson and her two sons for their various ailments at home and abroad after completing legal procedures. This will surely uphold the level playing attitude towards everyone and will pave the way for the present dispensation to make a good example for Bangladesh political arena. There's always a vast gap between the country's problems, candidates' agendas, and people's expectation. Politicians in Bangladesh aren't perfectly truthful and respective towards each other because some cases of honesty would keep them from getting elected. Politics is mostly about offering up convenient scapegoats and instant solutions for voters' complaints, even if the villains and promises are often false. Of course, people want their politicians to be candid, but they also want them to respect their opinions and other candidates' opinion. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was confronted by a ticket inspector as he traveled to London's Heathrow airport to catch a flight to the United States on Monday, April 21, 2008. In 2001 while Blair was in power, his wife Cherie was forced to pay a ten-pound fine plus a 7.90-pound fare when she was caught traveling to Luton from London Blackfriars without a ticket. People always appreciate to see their leaders to live as commoner because people construct attitudes based on their own personal experiences as well as the indirect experiences passed on through socialization. This is why, the Nepal's deposed king Gyanendra, would have some degree of public sympathy as he respected the abolition of the centuries-old Himalayan monarchy.
To earn the trust and confidence of the citizen, political leaders in Bangladesh must continue to demonstrate their correct attitude and spirit of unity to regain hope to re-establish democracy.
June 14, 2008, New York Ripan Kumar Biswas is a freelance writer based in New York | 