Where Bangladesh is heading to?
Dr. Sultan Ahmad
How is our beloved motherland going? Very very bad. Our two political
leaders, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Zia are playing not only with the
country but also its people. In the name of People's support, actually
the support of their surrogates and foot leakers, they are doing what
can in no way called "Politics". This is not the politics of Awami
League or BNP; what is going on is the politics of Hasina and Khaleda.
Both of them enjoyed absolute power of a Prime Minister, Leader of the
House, and Chief of the ruling party; no other leaders of the world
enjoy such absolute power.
Khaleda , during her first term of Prime Minister ship, was not too
bad. During her second term, she awarded Minister Ship to the two anti
liberation war criminals and allowed them to be on official cars
hoisting the Bangladesh flag. She allowed her two sons, with state
support, earn money through corruption and managed to send the illegal
money out of the country. Not only that she even killed farmers
demanding for fertilizers; killed protestors in the coal extraction
area at Fulbari. Unfortunately, a noble lady, Jahanara Imam, had to
leave this world with a sedition case on her head for organizing and
demanding the trial of the war criminals.
With state support and mastermind (Tareq was involved), the 21 August
grenade attack on Awami league meeting, all the law enforcement
authorities including the army intelligence tried to save the real
culprits by diverting the attention of all in their investigation in
the name of enquiry. She masterminded to get reelected by making false
voters' list. Her dress up as a Muslim widow was never consistent with
the norms of a Muslim majority population of Bangladesh. Rather, it
looks like that she goes out dressed up, as if, to participate in a
fashion show. But she is always shedding crocodile tears about Islam,
just for vote by using Islam.
Hasina, another leader, hijacked the father of the nation and
transformed him as father of Awami league by naming big institutions
after her father's name. In her first term of office as Prime
Minister, she could not deliver goods to the people as promised in her
party's election manifesto. In her second term of office as Prime
Minister, her attitude turned to be even worse. The man who plotted
the burning of people on a bus in front of hotel Sonargaon (Nanok,
according to the statement of Sheikh Selim) is now a Minister.
She, as Prime Minister, advised the President to pardon the killers
(who were charged for killing people and found guilty and awarded
capital punishment by the court) of her party. She also advised the
President to pardon the son (on charge of corruption) of her party
leader (also the Deputy leader of the Parliament) Sajeda Chowdhury .
During her two terms in office, debacle happened in the Share market.
Power lobby and looters looted millions of Taka from the share market
making the small investors poorer and penniless. Despite an inquiry
committee report, no action has been taken against the miscreants.
This time, Hasina appointed some bureaucrats as advisor to the Prime
Minister who because of the election rules only failed to contest
election. Mr. H. T. Imam who played a big role in the administration
after the assassination of her father is now a powerful advisor. Her
finance advisor, Mashiur Rahman openly denounced the transit fee from
the Indians by saying it as "barbaric". He also termed those engaged
in protesting the chaos in the share market as "unpatriotic", as if he
is the sole agent of patriotism.
Her bureaucratic Minister Mr. Abul Mal Abdul Muhit, while deliver
something in the media and in public, his body language always seems
to me as a comedian. He could have done better by joining the film
industry, I am sure. He also termed those protesting the chaos in the
share market as illiterate and rubbish.
Her communication minister Abul Husain is charged for corruption by
the World Bank. Another labor leader Minister Shajahn Khan is also
involved in persuading authorities to issue driving license to his
party surrogates without test. These are only a few to mention about
how the present government is doing.
Hasina, by virtue of her brute majority in the parliament,
deliberately dropped the form of care taker government from the
constitution without waiting even for the full final judgment of the
Appellate division of the Supreme Court. Her government has,
purposively, kept the local government institutions and its elected
representatives at the lowest profile and inactive.
Now the question remains: If the next election is conducted,
supposedly, by a care taker government, either Hasina or Khaleda will
again become Prime Minister. What will be the benefit of the country
and people? Will they change their character and deliver goods? The
answer is no? The country has experienced that the result s of all
elections so far held under the care taker government was rejected by
the losing party. The losing party boycotted the parliament, went to
the street, killed innocent people in the name of hartal, burnt buses
and destroyed public and private properties; but did not forego any
financial and other privileges as leader of the opposition and members
of the parliament. Moreover, experiences also show that even in local
body elections, as per law, should have been on nonpartisan basis; but
both the parties not only violate the law, but law could not be
applied to punish them. Then how these two ladies can establish rule
of law in the country, never?
In the last 20 years, we have seen these two ladies running the
country without looking and talking to each other even. Their close
associates (party leaders, party activists) were engaged in making
money and looting public properties through fraud, corruption and
extortion. Hundreds of their followers were killed in in-fight in
power struggle in the local areas. The country is ruled in a
presidential form of government, Prime Minister has all the powers, in
the guise of parliamentary form.
Khaled Zia and her surrogates who are now on the street for the
re-establishment of the care taker government, I think is a face wash.
Her main intention is to go to power so that she can save her children
and the war criminals from punishment. In a similar way, by abrogating
the care taker government, Hasina wants to be in power again through a
rigged election. People voted them to power for the second time to see
whether they change themselves, unfortunately they came out worse.
All these, almost every day, people hear in the talk shows of the TV
channels. But the learned discussants refrain from suggesting any
solutions to the sustained political problems. My suggestion is that
people from all walks of life, from Teknaf to Tatulia, must unite
together to organize strong protest throughout the country to generate
a political tsunami that will drive these two ladies and their
sycophants out of politics for ever. There is no other alternative at
sight.
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Dr. Sultan Ahmad
Author: Columnist
E Mail : ahmaddrsultan@gmail.com
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=369042
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