To me 16 December is a day which can be marked as a watershed in the annals of history of the Bengali nation. This was a day when a thousand years old dream came true. The partition of India in 1947 was a blunder and the creation of Pakistan based on religion was illogical and the inclusion of East Bengal into Pakistan was a very bad political decision. We were destined to be separated from Pakistan sooner or later this is historical reality. At 40 what is the achievement of Bangladesh as a free nation? Political squabbling is there but the country itself is not failed one. There are certainly some visible progress has been made despite all these negative aspects. Bangladesh has established itself as a nation in the eyes of the world. A few of its achievements are well recognized by the international community.
The political quagmire is the only negative sign which will take some more time to mature. There is hardly any politician in the country who really understands their impartial responsibility towards the nation. They are mostly illiterate, short sighted and parochial. They have no power to chart a realistic approach to solve the national issues. Politics does not have anything to do with personal comfort and ego. This is the rotten sore in the Bangladesh political scene.
The way Bangladeshi politicians conducts politics it does not reflect the vision of an independent nation. Their behavior shows their lack of enlightenment and overall understanding of nature of politics. Harold Laski once said that a nation gets a government it deserves. This comment from a world renowned political philosopher may sound harsh but in many cases it’s true.
I do agree that 40 might not be a significant part of the eternity but in this span of time some sort of discipline should have emerge in the over all political situation of Bangladesh. This is yet to happen and when it will happen nobody knows.
A few blunders were committed at the early days of independence. Sheikh Mujib himself did no know the real concept of secularism which led him to join the spineless Organization of the Islamic Countries. This weakness was grabbed by the anti independence forces to divert the nation from the core value of nationalism. He failed to embrace and appreciate the different sections of the nationalist forces that all fought to defeat the enemy. The notion of democracy which was the mantra for our freedom struggle was not understood in its principles and spirit by Mujib who could not find a unity in diversity.
General Ziaur Rahman harmed the nation by resettling the religious fascist forces in national politics. He wanted to reaffirm and establish his authority by expanding his base by allowing these dark communal forces a free hand in the national politics. But despite all these the future will come with a positive synthesis which will be ushered by the posterity.
Akbar Hussain
Toronto
Canada
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