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Re: [mukto-mona] বঙ্গবন্!



"Lie, white lie, and statistics" were defined as three varieties of untruth by Disraeli.

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On May 25, 2014, at 2:40 AM, "ANISUR RAHMAN anisur.rahman1@btinternet.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

It looks like Engr. Shafiq is using this platform for his party political propaganda. A little civilised approach would have been better appreciated and would show the propagandist in a better light. We all know that Bangladeshi statistics, like Bangladeshi elections, are thoroughly massaged to suit the need of the incumbent regime. A drastically opposite statistics would come out when the opposition comes to power. So nobody is fooled by this propaganda.

- AR 


From: "'Engr. Shafiq Bhuiyan' srbanunz@gmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 24 May 2014, 1:49
Subject: [mukto-mona] বঙ্গবন্ধু এবং তাঁর সুযোগ্য কন্যা শেখ হাসিনার আওয়ামী লীগ সরকারের আমলেই বাংলাদেশের সর্বোচ্চ অর্থনৈতিক উন্নতি হয়! [1 Attachment]

 
 
বঙ্গবন্ধু এবং তাঁর সুযোগ্য কন্যা শেখ হাসিনার আওয়ামী লীগ সরকারের আমলেই
বাংলাদেশের সর্বোচ্চ অর্থনৈতিক উন্নতি হয়!
22.05.2014
 
অর্থনৈতিক তথ্য উপাত্য প্রমান করে যে,
একমাত্র বঙ্গবন্ধু এবং তাঁর সুযোগ্য কন্যা শেখ হাসিনার আওয়ামী লীগ সরকারের শাসন আমল ছাড়া - বাংলাদেশের - অন্য কোন শাসন আমলে, এত বেশী হারে দেশের অর্থনৈতিক উন্নতি সাধিত হয় নাই!
আমি আরো জানাতে চাই যে, এমনকি, ১৯৭২ থেকে ১৯৭৫ সাল পর্যন্ত স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধত্তোর যুদ্ধ বিধ্বস্থ বাংলাদেশে --
·        স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধের সময়, বিমান-নৌ-নদী বন্দর, রাস্তা-ঘাট, রেল-সড়ক সেতু-পথ, স্কুল-কলেজ-বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, অফিস-আদালত, ব্যবস্যা-বানিজ্য সহ বাংলাদেশের সব অর্থনৈতিক মেরুদণ্ড এবং 'ইনফ্রা স্ট্রাকচার' ভেঙ্গে এবং নস্ট হওয়ার পরও,
·        ভারত থেকে সর্বশ্রান্ত হয়ে ফেরা ১ কোটি শরণার্থীকে পুনর্বাসন করার পরও,
·        কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাঙ্কে এক ডলার পরিমান বৈদেশিক মুদ্রা না থাকার পরও
·        ১৯৭৪ সালে সারা দেশে ভয়াবহ বন্যার পরও
·        পাকিস্থানী-আমেরিকার দেশীয় চররা হত্যা, লুট,


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[mukto-mona] FW: Salman Rushdie: On 'Modi's Toadies'



<< If freedom of expression is under attack, if religious freedom is threatened, and if substantial parts of society live in physical fear for their safety, then such a society cannot be said to be a true democracy.
In contemporary India all these problems exist and they are getting worse.
The attack on literary, scholarly and artistic freedom has gathered force ever since the banning of my novel, The Satanic Verses in 1988. >>>


To: foil-l@insaf.net

 

http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?pid=3262&eid=31&ddm=10
 
Salman Rushdie: On 'Modi's Toadies'
POSTED BY Buzz ON May 06, 2014 AT 21:05 IST ,  Edited At: May 06, 2014 21:05 IST
                  
Salman Rushdie spoke on India: Religious Freedom and Personal Safety on April 28, 2014 at the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival.
Let me talk a bit about my country of origin, about India. 
There is a general election under way in India right now. 
Because of the immense size of the country, it takes six weeks for everyone to vote.
The election is largely fair, largely free. Voting is peaceful, incidents are few, and the results will be a trustworthy expression of this gigantic electorate.
On this electoral process rests India's claim to be the world's largest democracy. A proud claim, for it is harder for a poor country to be a free country.
And the long civil uncertainties and frequent unfreedoms of the citizens of all India's neighbours—the north, east, west and south—make the Indian boast all the prouder.
This, we can all agree, is good. 

But a democratic society is not simply one in which such a ballot takes place every four or five years.
Democracy is more than mere majoritarianism. 
In a truly free democratic society, all citizens must feel free all the time, whether they end up on the winning or losing side in an election—free to express themselves as they choose, free to worship or not worship as they please, free from danger and fear. 
If freedom of expression is under attack, if religious freedom is threatened, and if substantial parts of society live in physical fear for their safety, then such a society cannot be said to be a true democracy. 
In contemporary India all these problems exist and they are getting worse.
The attack on literary, scholarly and artistic freedom has gathered force ever since the banning of my novel, The Satanic Verses in 1988.
Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel Such a Long Journey was attacked recently by members of the Hindu extremist party the Shiv Sena in Bombay and Bombay University caved in and removed the book from the syllabus.
A.K. Ramanujan's classic essay, The 300 Ramayanas, for decades, the foundational text of Ramayan studies in Delhi University, was similarly attacked and similarly the authorities cravenly succumbed and removed it from the syllabus.
Not only was James Laine's study of the Maratha warrior king Shivaji, an icon of the Shiv Sena Party, attacked and banned, but the great library of ancient texts in Poona, where Laine had done some of his research was attacked and many ancient manuscripts destroyed.
And most recently, the same fanatical Hindu—a person called Batra— who attacked Ramanujan's essay, brought an action against Wendy Doniger's important scholarly work, The Hindus, accusing her ludicrously and ungrammatically, of being a "woman hungry of sex" and instead of being laughed out of court, he succeeded in scaring the mighty Penguin Books of withdrawing the work.
A gay artist, Balbir Krishan, was first threatened and then physically attacked in India's capital New Delhi, accused of spreading homosexuality.
The grand old man of Indian painting, Maqbool Fida Husain, was driven out of India because of threats from Hindu goon squads who disliked his nude portraits of Hindu goddess Saraswati in spite the long sculptural and artistic tradition from the most ancient times of depicting Indian goddesses heavily adorned in jewellery but very scantily clad. The wardrobe of the goddess Saraswati wouldn't take up much room.
Episodes of this sort are multiplying it seems by the month, by the week, by the day almost, and the authorities have failed lamentably in their duty to protect free speech rights.
In fact, politicians and police officials alike have repeatedly blamed the victims for being the trouble makers.
The climate of fear that has consequently been created is such that, as some of the examples I have given show, hooligans and censors' work is now done for them by the collapse of those who ought to be free speech's defenders.
Penguin Books, whose merger with Random House, has created the world's largest and most powerful publisher, and who were prepared to defend my work back in 1988, this time gave in to Doniger's critics without so much as a fight.
This already lamentable state of affairs looks likely to become worse if, as seems likely, as seems probable, the election results bring to power the Hindu nationalist BJP so that the highly divisive figure of Mr Narendra Modi, accused of being responsible for an ant-Muslim pogrom in 2002 in the state of Gujarat, whose chief minister he was then and still is, a hardliner's hardliner, becomes India's next Prime Minister.
Films dealing with the pogrom have been banned in Gujarat ever since the attacks. Already, the threats to free expression have begun to spread beyond the state of Gujarat.
Siddharth Varadarajan, the editor of the distinguished English language daily, the Hindu, was forced to resign recently because the paper's owner's felt he wasn't pro-Modi enough. Soon afterwards, the caretaker of his apartment was beaten up in a Delhi street, by thugs who told him, 'Tell your boss to watch what he says on Television.'
Sagarika Ghose, a leading anchor of CNN's Indian affiliate, IBN, was ordered by her bosses to stop posting tweets critical of Mr Modi. In response, she tweeted what many journalists are thinking: 'There is an evil out there, an evil which is stamping out all free speech and silencing independent journalists: journalists unite!'
Nor are the threats limited to free expression. Modi's campaign manager Amit Shah delivered a speech in early April in the northern town of Muzaffarnagar, the site of sectarian strife last year. He described the elections as an opportunity to seek revenge against the Muslim minorities. 
Giriraj Singh, a senior leader of the BJP, said in an election rally in the northern state of Bihar, that those opposing Mr Modi would have no place in India—they will only find a place in Pakistan, he shouted.
Praveen Togadia, one of the most senior of what I have come to think of as Modi's Toadies, told his supporters to prevent Muslims from buying property in Hindu majority neighbourhoods in Gujarat. 
The writing is on the wall. 
A couple of weeks ago, the sculptor Anish Kapoor and I, along with several other Indian artists, academics and intellectuals, signed an open letter, worrying about Mr Modi's rise to power.
Since then, the attack on us in Indian social media has been relentless and, paradoxically, has validated our fears.
We worried about the arrival of a bullying, intolerant new regime and here are its early outriders: menacing, nasty, bile-spewing, vengeful, substituting ad-hominem attacks for any real debate. There will not be less of this after a Modi victory.
Mr Modi's supporters hark back to the ballot box. He will win, they say, because he is popular. And they are right. 
A disturbingly high percentage of the Indian electorate wants a strong man leader, is willing to turn a blind eye to his past misdeeds, even if those include genocide, believes that dissenting intellectuals should be put in their place, critical journalists should be muzzled, and artists should behave themselves.
This willingness to bet the house on Modi's alleged economic genius, on which many commentators have doubts, and to risk everything that's beautiful about a free society, may indeed provide the wave which sweeps Mr Modi to victory.
It would be easy to say: then India will get the government it deserves. For all those who value what is being lost, all those who want a country free of fear, an open society not a stifled one, all those Indians will get an India they don't deserve. 
Those who value the India for which Rabindranath Tagore yearned in his great poem, 'My country awake!' will get an India that would have horrified the poet.
Where the mind is without fear and the head held high, 
where knowledge is free, 

Tagore wrote, in part:
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

India is in danger of betraying the legacy of its founding fathers and greatest artists like Rabindranath Tagore.
Thank you.






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[mukto-mona] Is Lutfur in trouble despite win?



http://www.wharf.co.uk/2014/05/post-58.html

Election: Narrow victory for Lutfur Rahman in Tower Hamlets mayoral vote

By Rob Virtue on May 24, 2014 1:55 AM |
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Lutfur Rahman was re-elected as Tower Hamlets mayor at the Troxy on Saturday morning after a bitterly fought campaign.
Labour's John Biggs recorded 27,643 first preference votes, enough to take the count to second preferences.
However, with just 6,500 second votes, he fell short of the current mayor's total of over 36,500 first votes and 854 seconds.
Speaking afterwards, Mr Rahman, representing his party, Tower Hamlets First, said: "All I ever wanted was to work on an equal playing field. I never asked for a favour from anyone but to see such obstacles in my way I found difficult."
Mr Biggs took to the stage and was booed, leading him to retort: "Be a bit respectful. This is a democracy and you have to listen to what we say."
He added: "We should be proud with have one of the highest turnouts of anywhere in London. Can I congratulate Lutfur Rahman and I will continue to work with him.
"Tower Hamlets is a great place to live. I love representing Tower Hamlets in City Hall and whether we have a One East End or a Tower Hamlets First - or Respect as it was in the past - we need to respect and to work together and it's my pledge to try to do that.
"Together we can be unbeaten as a community, if we're divided we'll be taken apart."
It was a night that had everything you would expect in terms of drama from a Tower Hamlets' election. Early expectations were it would finish by 4.30pm, or 6pm if there was a second preference count.
However, with excited crowds surging outside, warnings of arrests from the returning officer over leaks, plus a seemingly almost overwhelming number of ballot papers that needed adjudication, the event continued until the early hours of the next morning.
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After the verification it was announced the vote saw a comparatively huge turnout of over 47%, well above the national average, and far exceeding the 2010 Tower Hamlets mayoral total of just under 25%. Overall 86,542 took part in this year's vote.
For the next few hours rumours spread like wildfire around the huge Troxy hall, with momentum changing from one of the leading candidates to the other every hour.
Counting finally began for the first votes at 6.30pm and carried on much longer than the anticipated two hours.
At 9pm the hall was told the returning officer was going through papers that needed adjudication.
And then half an hour later, an announcement came from the stage warning against those passing messages from inside the venue to those on the street.
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[mukto-mona] Re: USA Still wants participationg election in Bangladesh: U.S.Ambassador Mozina



This is why he should be deported from Bangladesh - hope you get it .

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On May 25, 2014, at 10:56 AM, "Mohiuddin Anwar" <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:

আমেরিকা এখনও বাংলাদেশে অংশগ্রহণমূলক নির্বাচন চায়
২৫ মে,২০১৪
 
 
 
 
নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক
আরটিএনএন
ঢাকা: বাংলাদেশে সব দলের অংশগ্রহণমূলক একটি গ্রহণযোগ্য নির্বাচন অনুষ্ঠানের প্রয়োজনীয়তার কথা পুনর্ব্যক্ত করেছেন ঢাকায় নিযুক্ত বিদায়ী মার্কিন রাষ্ট্রদূত ড্যান ডব্লিউ মোজেনা।

তিনি বলেন, 'আমেরিকা বাংলাদেশে ৫ জানুয়ারির নির্বাচনের ব্যাপারে আগের অবস্থানেই রয়েছে। আমেরিকা চায় দেশের স্বার্থে সবার অংশগ্রহণমূলক একটি স্বচ্ছ নির্বাচন।'

রবিবার রাজধানীর ইস্কাটনে বাংলাদেশ ইনস্টিটিউট অব ইন্টারন্যাশনাল এন্ড স্ট্র্যাটেজিক স্টাডিজ (বিলস) আয়োজিত 'কান্ট্রি লেকচার সিরিজ'-এ অংশ নিয়ে এসব কথা বলেন মোজেনা।

অনুষ্ঠান শেষে সাংবাদিকদের বিভিন্ন প্রশ্নের জবাব দেন বিদায়ী মার্কিন রাষ্ট্রদূত। তিনি বলেন, ৫ জানুয়ারির নির্বাচন সবার অংশগ্রহণমূলক হয়নি। ওই নির্বাচন নিয়ে আমাদের অবস্থান এখনো বলবৎ রয়েছে।

দশম জাতীয় সংসদ নির্বাচনকে জাপান সাংবিধানিকভাবে বৈধ বলেছে। জাপান তার অবস্থান পরিবর্তন করে চলমান সরকারের সঙ্গে কাজ করার আগ্রহও প্রকাশ করেছে। এ বিষয়ে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের অবস্থান সম্পর্কে জানতে চাইলে মোজেনা বলেন, 'যুক্তরাষ্ট্র তার অবস্থান পরিবর্তন করেনি।'

জিএসপি সুবিধা বাতিল প্রসঙ্গে তিনি বলেন, জিএসপি সুবিধা মুখ্য বিষয় নয়। তৈরি পোশাক খাতে স্থিতিশীল অবস্থা বজায় রাখা এবং শ্রমমান উন্নয়ন হওয়া জরুরি। যাতে রানা প্লাজা ট্র্যাজেডির পুনরাবৃত্তি না ঘটে।

ভারতের সঙ্গে বাংলাদেশের সম্পর্কের বিষয়ে জানতে চাইলে মোজেনা বলেন, নিজেদের সাতটি রাজ্যের (সেভেন সিস্টার) নিরাপত্তার স্বার্থেই বাংলাদেশের সঙ্গে সম্পর্ক ভারতের ভালো রাখা দরকার।

বিদায়ী এ রাষ্ট্রদূত বলেন, 'আমি বাংলাদেশ-ভারত সীমান্তে অনেক বেড়িয়েছি। এই দুই দেশ একে অপরের ওপর নির্ভরশীল। আমি জানি, ভারতের উত্তর-পূর্ব রাজ্য (সেভেন সিস্টার) বাংলাদেশের পণ্যসহ নানা বিষয়ের ওপর নির্ভরশীল।'

চীনের সঙ্গে বাংলাদেশের সম্পর্ক নিয়ে মোজেনা বলেন, চীনের সঙ্গে বাংলাদেশের সম্পর্ক খুবই ইতিবাচক। ভৌগোলিক অবস্থানের কারণে বাংলাদেশের সঙ্গে সম্পর্ক বৃদ্ধিতে অনেক দেশেরই আগ্রহ রয়েছে।

তিনি বলেন, 'আমি জানতে পেরেছি, চীন বাংলাদেশের পদ্মা সেতুতে বিনিয়োগ করতে আগ্রহী। পদ্মা সেতু নির্মাণ শেষ হলে এ দেশে প্রবৃদ্ধি আরো বৃদ্ধি পাবে।'
 

 


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