On the 17th March night an octogenarian friend of mine and a retired justice of the High Court phoned me up and asked me the pertinent question where our beloved country is heading for. I understood that he asked me the question from a deep worry about the overall situation of the country. The next morning on the 18th another notable retired educator of the same age level and senior to me by about ten years phoned me to let me have his concern about the country stating that the country has lately been in a serious `spiritual vacuum'. On the morning again, I had a scope to read through a post editorial of a Dhaka Bengali daily contributed by another nearly octogenarian retired BBC journalist now settled in London who, as well, expressed his deep concern for the country's politics and economy, particularly for the extremely egoistic, undemocratic and mortally feudal attitude of the leader now running to country. The journalist, I knew, had excellent
relations quite long ago not only with the present leader but also with the father of this leader, somehow though the relation of CHACHA VASTI ruptured, I am not sure, when, how and why. Now he contributes to quite a few Dhaka Bengali dailies from London that if I come across take interest to go through for he adds useful facts and experience from his vast experience as a journalist.
In the latest of his articles referred to above, he had his serious feeling, in view of the crisis Bangladesh has been passing through following the tragic aftermath of the BDR mayhem, for open consultation and if need be taking into confidence all patriotic forces, particularly with the opposition parties and leaders. But he despaired about the narrowly inward looking, extremely egoistic and dangerously negative attitude of the leader. He has also recalled his past sad experience of similar negative and egoistic attitude of the leader of the early 1970s so much so that the eldest son in law of the leader and a nuclear scientist once in 1974 in the midst of severe famine in the country took the journalist to the leader with the hope that he might have impressed the egoistic leader to listen to his counsel for good as the journalist was just like CHOTO BHAI through connection and closeness of Kolkata days in early 1940s, and also played a valiant role
through his huge work and sacrifice tirelessly using the BBC forum in 1971 to put the leader in the highest of position and honor, and independence of Bangladesh. In the article he used quite a few words not only meaning hard truths but also went on further making comment possibly in utter frustration that the present leader was no genetically (he used the Bengali term KUSTI) different from the leader of the 1970s. One may hardly disagree with the comment for the truth of the matter is that the two leaders in question are father and offspring.
It is well known that despite the peak high of popularity of the father, he did not have a pleasant end. Neither did he carried the people to hope, despite high pitch of popularity at the beginning that declined so much rapidly in little over three years that when he fell from power very few lamented his fall. Instead the common people rejoiced his exit from the absolute pinnacle of power of Bangladesh though it was very much tragic one. Many sensible men and women would associate the tragedy in the vacuum the leader himself had made through his notorious ego and by shunning the path of consultation at personal as well as group level. He turned the Parliament into a rubber stamp of his egoistic wishes manifested by complete absence of democratic culture of the leader from within and so letting many to take undue advantages being the opportunist sycophants encircling him from all around. The journalist deeply lamented the repetition of the same scenario
now and had his worries known in the item.
He titled the item, DESH THAKLEI PRODHANMONTRITYA, spoke clearly about his serious concern for independence and sovereignty of the country. I am afraid, he is not one hundred percent right in making his mind open in the observation so made in the title. The father, as well, ditched the country into deep down to utter frustration in all fronts, economy, politics, education and what not, despite the fact that the leader had long experience in politics and had been a big exponent for democracy as also the people so believed and expected of him. But fortunately for the people and the country when the people felt betrayed he had himself to take exit from the scene, not the country ended in extinction, but survived with dignity. This time as well, if democracy could be made to survive, Bangladesh shall wither away the viciousness of the present leader. The justice I referred to at the beginning used to tell me repeatedly that he has had optimism as his
intuition goes and went in the past as well that `ALLAH"S 92A', time and again, has so long saved Bangladesh from total extinction against the all time draconian wishes of some romantics from across the border who continue to cherish it so long for about six decades now.
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