Dear Farida
Is this the merciful, sweet, long awaited democracy were talking about?
Is this so tolerable, so acceptable to you?
UNACCEPTABLE.
The fight begins again - it has already started. The mandate was not given to them so that they could destroy democracy. Can you hear the silence of the 'Mujib is my real father' crowd?
I'll tell you the truth. Humpty Dumpty is more of a real man than any Nethrist.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
MPs to call the shots in upazila councils
chairmen sidelined
Bndews24.com .
A parliamentary watchdog has recommended passage of the upazila council bill in such a way that it would make elected chairmen virtually toothless.
According to the final recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on local government ministry, MPs would be the ex-officio advisers to the 482 upazila councils where the chairmen must accept their recommendations.
The draft bill, placed in parliament on February 24, had a section where MPs were made advisers but their recommendations were not mandatory for the councils to heed to.
The committee at a meeting Sunday made the Upazila Nirbahi Officers the members-secretary to the councils while the elected chairmen would be in charge of planning and monitoring development programmes at the grassroots.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who was in favour of making the MPs advisers but not making their recommendations mandatory, had to give in to the pressure of MPs.
`[The prime minister] deleted a section for making MPs recommendations mandatory,' committee chairman Rahmat Ali told the news agency after the meeting at parliament building.
`But the MPs questioned what it meant to be advisers without work.'
He said the committee, which was the right authority to change draft bills, had unanimously finalised the recommendations and that he would place the report in parliament Monday.
`The committee unanimously recommended that the MPs will be advisers to all Upazila councils which must accept the MPs recommendations,' said Ali.
'We have also made the Upazila Nirbahi Officers the members-secretary who will provide secretarial assistance to the councils.
`The upazila councils, not the upazila chairman, will implement the recommendations to the MPs,' the committee chairman said.
He said as the bill was placed in parliament for the revival of the Upazila Act 1998, the MPs must have the role specified in the act.
The military-installed caretaker government made an ordinance in 2008 and annulled the Upazila Act 1998 in an extra-constitutional move.
The local government ordinance 2008 deleted a section of the Local Government (Upazila) Act, 1998 which forced the upazila councils to accept the MPs' suggestions.
`The Upazila chairmen have enough powers as per the schedule of the Upazila Act of 1998,' Ali added.
The schedule stipulated 18 functions of upazila chairmen, mainly planning, monitoring and implementing some local development programmes including road construction, water supply and managing sanitation.
Once the bill is placed in the recommended form, the house will discuss it for passage.
Making the MPs' recommendations mandatory for upazila councils was a controversial issue.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, recently said her government would strike a balance between the MPs and upazila chairmen.
Successive governments since passage of Upazila Act of 1998 failed to hold the upazila polls in the face of strong opposition from the MPs. The MPs used to control the development activities at the local level in absence of an Upazila council nurtured by the bureaucrats.
Local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam, state minister Jahangir Kabir Nanok, Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin, Ali Ashraf Khan Khasru, Monowar Hossain Chowdhury and Abul Khayer Bhuiyan attended the meeting as committee members.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "ezajur" <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
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> Dear Farida Majid
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> I tend not to tangle with you because I respect any woman who takes such a passionate stand against the war criminals of 1971. Your invitations to fight are ignored by a twisted sense of gallantry on my part. I know I would be respectful if I ever met you. And I would never spank you in public.
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> An unexpected kindness given to me this morning, for which I am eternally grateful, has tempered my mood. And it is in honor of that kindness that I save you today and leave the fight for the next time that you are so sweet as to think I cannot respond to mockery based on the verse of children.
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> Love
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> Ezajur Rahman
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> Kuwait
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> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid farida_majid@ wrote:
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> > Not every issue has two sides of the story; each supposed side needing a 'fair' hearing. I would ardently like to believe GENOCIDE is one such issue. Fascism is another. Terrorism induced massacre of innocent civilians or non-combatant army officers, is certainly another.
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> > Yet, our Ejazur has a knack of not only finding the irrelevant partisan 'side' of a story but creating a wall between two imagined `netri' versions. He then makes a great effort of sitting on that wall.
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> > Soon enough, he has a great fall -- he and his Humpty Dumpty anti-netri logic. Politics aside, it is downright misogynic.
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> > His ideas are half-boiled if not poached;
> > His brain gets scrambled whenever a `netri' is broached.
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> > And by the time he has made a cheesy omelet of the tid- bits of info, in his brain,
> > Humpty Dumpty could not be put together again.
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> > For all your dui netri-bashing pizzaz,
> > Dear Humpty Dumpty Ejaz,
> > For all your effort of sitting on the wall
> > You were pulled down and kicked
> > As a `dirty, filthy BAL'.
> >
> > How you praised the CTG & Moinu,
> > How you cheered DU-DOK & Fakhru!
> > Everything is clean forgotten.
> > Now you're as rotten an egg as any
> > About to be declared a non-Muslim, uncooked and RAW.
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> > You have a good, kind heart,
> > so, why not try to be a democrat?
> >
> > A popularly elected govt. after two long years
> > Deserves as much caring for as the `pianzu'
> > You cherish at your Ramadan iftars.
> >
> > I often wonder: Whoever believed that "all the King's horses (RAW/MOSAD/CIA/ISI) and all the King's men (neta-gon as opposed to dui netri)" would or could put Humpty together again?
> > Only our colonial mindset !
> > Let us have some mercy
> > for people, freedom and democracy.
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> > Farida Majid
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