I totally agree. I hate this politics of vengeance. Changing existing name is nothing but meanness. It does not matter who has a higher degree of meanness. This cannot be and should not be supported by any quarter. But have we ever thought why:
· The slogan (Joy Bangla) on which the liberation war of Bangladesh was fought was changed to Bangladesh Zindabad? Ever since the nation has been divided by these two slogans.
· Radio station was Islamized from Bangladesh Betar to Radio Bangladesh?
· Name of Bangabandhu Avenue was changed again to Quaid-i-Azam Avenue after the assassination of Sk. Mujibur Rahman? (Though for a short time)?
· The name of Bangabandhu Bridge was changed to Jamuna Bridge?
· The name of Bangabandhu Theatre was changed to Bhashani theatre?
· The name Bangabandhu Convention Center was changed to China Moitri Center? And you insist to call it China Moitri Center though it has been renamed again.
· The name of Nazurul Islam Bridge at Bhairab was changed?
· The name of M. A. Hannan Airport was changed to Shah Amanat Airport?
Above all, can anybody tell what Shaheed Ziaur Rahman portrait was doing at Bangabandhu stadium? What Shaheed Ziaur Rahman murals were doing there?
Hasina asked to change the name of Airport. Why worry, the name will change again when BNP comes to power (hopefully then we will see a Prime Minister called Tariq Zia, a President called Begum Zia, a foreign minister called Mirza Abbas and an Interior Minister called Lutfuzzaman). And don't get the illusion that Zia International Airport will remain Zia International Airport for most of the people in Bangladesh. For commoner it is only Dhaka Airport and shall remain so what may ever you name it. Everything and every name may change except Mazar of Shaheed Zia which shall remain "Mazar Sharif of Shaheed Zia".
And you will remain confused if you choose to do so.
Regards
Junaid
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "ezajur" <Ezajur@...> wrote:
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> Hasina asked to change the airport name and she puts it to a vote!
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> How elegant, how democratic!
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> Zia International Airport will remain ZIA International Airport for most
> people in Bangladesh.
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> We are still confused about 'digital time'!
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> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan bd_mailer@ wrote:
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> > Govt plans to rename ZIA
> > PM requested to rename structures named after Zia
> > Â
> > The government is going to change the name of the country’s
> biggest airport, now called the Zia International Airport, and rename it
> after the great saint, Hazrat Shahjalal (RA), said highly placed sources
> in the government.
> > Â Â Â
> > The Cabinet at its weekly meeting on Monday decided, in principle, to
> go along with the proposal of Awami League’s general secretary
> and LGRD and cooperatives minister, Syed Ashraful Islam, who suggested
> the renaming of the capital’s aerodrome, a minister told New Age.
> > Â Â Â
> > Named after Bangladesh’s former president and the Bangladesh
> Nationalist Party’s founder, Ziaur Rahman, the airport began
> operating in 1981. ZIA is the nation’s largest airport with a
> total area of 1,300 acres. More than 16 international airlines use this
> airport which handles half a million passengers and 98,000 million
> tonnes cargo annually, according to official records.
> > Â Â Â
> > Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who presided over the meeting of the
> Cabinet, was requested to change the names of the structures which were
> named after Ziaur Rahman during the tenures of the BNP-led governments,
> said the minister.
> > Â Â Â
> > Ashraf proposed the changing of the name of ZIA, and then the PM asked
> all present to propose the new name, and the name of Hazrat Shahjalal
> (RA) was approved, said insiders who were at the meeting.
> > Â Â Â
> > Referring to BNP’s secretary-general Khandaker Delwar Hossain,
> Hasina, also the ruling Awami League’s president, said that the
> BNP has spent cores of taka for holding its council session but has
> appointed the same man as the secretary-general, said the minister.
> > Â Â Â
> > Referring to the BNP’s newly constituted national standing
> committee, she said that Khaleda had appointed terrorists and corrupt
> persons to the BNP’s highest policy-making body, said sources.
> > Â Â Â
> > The Cabinet also decided to recruit 2,627 diploma nurses on an
> emergency basis and to upgrade their status from Class III to Class
> II.The PM’s press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad, told newsmen that
> currently 9,000 nurses, who passed the 4-year diploma course, are
> unemployed. The present doctor-nurse ratio is 2:1 but standard ratio
> throughout the world is 1:3.
> > Â Â Â
> > Hasina stressed the need for improving the professional quality as
> well as social status of the nurses.She asked the concerned ministry to
> formulate a new policy for recruitment of the nurses and said the
> government would encourage the private enterprises to set up training
> centres for nurses to improve the standard of nursing so that the
> country can send skilled nurses to work abroad, said the minister.
> > Â Â Â
> > The Cabinet also endorsed a proposal to set up Barisal Science and
> Technology University in response to Barisal City Corporation
> mayor’s request, and to this end it approved the Barisal
> University (Amendment) Bill 2009 and also approved, in principle, the
> Barisal Science and Technology (Amendment) Act.
> > Â Â Â Sheikh Hasina said that the government would set up a
> full-fledged university in Barisal and the university would be named
> Barisal University, said sources.
> > Â Â Â The premier, during her previous tenure in 1996,
> announced the setting up of Barisal University, but the next government
> of Khaleda Zia changed the name of the university to Ziaur Rahman
> College.
> > Â Â Â Hasina asked the law and home affairs ministers to take
> immediate steps for withdrawing the ‘politically
> motivated’ cases filed against Awami League leaders and activists
> by the BNP-Jamaat regime, said sources.
> > Â Â Â The government on February 17 set up an inter-ministry
> committee to review the ‘politically motivated’ cases,
> especially those filed against politicians, during the regimes of the
> BNP-Jamaat government and the interim administration, and the committee
> has so far recommended withdrawal of a total of 1,183 cases.
> > Â Â Â The Cabinet has also shifted the responsibility of
> running Fazil and Kamil education to the Islamic University from the
> National University after giving the final approval to the Islamic
> University Amendment Bill 2000, and in this regard endorsed the draft of
> the Islami University (Amendment) Act 2009.
> > Â
> > http://www.newagebd.com/2009/dec/15/front.html
> >
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