The Government made the following errors during the hartal:
1. The BNP offices should not have been cordoned off
2. SH Tuku, Home Ministry, should not have used provocative language
3. BNP female MP's should not have been manhandled
4. AL activists should not have been instructed to march publicly
5. The police should not have allowed AL activists to march freely
6. The police should not have beaten BNP activists with sticks
Now. Does this make me a BNP supporter? Well, if I was an AL leader I would have insisted on the above 6 points. It would have taught my own activists a thing or two about real politics, caught BNP offguard, taught the BNP a new lesson, won universal public support and, above all, indicated a better road ahead.
As it stands we have fallen into the same trap that we always fall into. Understandable.
Bangladeshi national politics are simply a magnification of Bangladeshi village politics. Our village politics have not evolved for centuries due to isolation and illiteracy. We think our village politics is sophisticated (another grand delusion of ours). But a manual of village politics, or rather a playbook, would at best list no more tha a dozen rules, a dozen strategies, a dozen countermoves and a dozen 'dialogues'. Century after century our villagers have lived by the same playbook. We simply don't know any better. And so our village players perpetrate these trategies and shortly afterwards fall victim to the same strategies.
Our government and our opposition, the AL and BNP, are simply villagers with a bit more money and the occassional degree.
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