In this electronic age when news and views are transmitted around the world so rapidly and constantly no nation or any political party can claim ignorance. But Bangladeshi politicians are a bunch of people whose stupidity knows no bound in this respect. From 1971 to this day they are confined to their baby cribs with no sign of sitting or walking in the future. This gap between the culpable infancy and adulthood is a lurking bad omen for any nation who wants to walk of its own. News reports say that when Sheikh Haseena came back from abroad thousands of people went to welcome her at the airport for reasons best known to Awami League. This welcome has caused untold traffic miseries to the common man is a city infamous for its traffic jams. The learned Prime Minister must be aware of it but could not resist it
The lure for any kind of personal aggrandizement is not a saleable commodity in democracy. This truth becomes apparent and well understood when a political party is in the opposition benches but the reality becomes something else when they are in power. When Field Marshall Ayub Khan was the dictator of Pakistan his arrival in Dhaka was a matter of much fanfare for the ruling Convention Muslim League headed by governor Monem Khan who used to call Ayub Khan, Amar President. He hired and herded people in bus loads to the Tejgaon airport to welcome the president. I don't know how much a fool he was to believe this orchestrated show but never tried to stop it.
Politics in a country like Bangladesh where poverty and insecurity stalks people in every step of their lives is a short cut to avoid poverty and achieve a sense of security. Morality or sensibility is not a part of it. The politician who runs the country does not really do it to achieve what they are supposed to achieve. But the entire behavior seems ridiculous and mischievous. I don't call it ridiculous or stupid only but a calculative show of irresponsibility. Many people behave allergic when I say that Bangladeshi politicians have much to learn from India about running the country. The traditions of Indian democracy must be appreciated by everyone who thinks welfare for their nations.
Pakistan is a rotten example of failures in every aspect of their national life. Bangladesh need to take lessons from Pakistan about how they have failed to achieve a nationhood, how they have failed democracy, how they have indoctrinated their people in the name of religion and what blunder they have made by making Indo phobia the corner stone of their politics. Let the Bangladeshi politicians do not forget that this nation has come stay in the map of the world which needs pragmatic vision to touch the fabric of the future.
Akbar Hussain
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