Mainul Hosein :
It is heart breaking to witness tragedy after tragedy besetting us and lives are lost in large numbers for lack of preparedness of an organised government. Only on Thursday 25 lives were lost and 90 injured from a fire broke out in a faulty building in Banani. RAJUK’s explanation is confusing about the height of the building plan authorised. The fire fighters were found unprepared for the emergency operation.
It should not be acceptable for the opposition political parties to be part of the helplessness of the people and look for excuses to justify for perpetuating their ineffective existence. When such suffocating is the situation there may be self-satisfaction for some of being leaders. If they cannot overcome its election time difficulties, then it is better for them not to have opposition parties for bringing about no change.
Political parties are not talking shops waiting for God-given chances coming in their way. It hurts to see young party workers suffering and theirs’ right future turned into ashes by misguided leadership in politics.
Woes of the people are also not ameliorating.
There is nothing called idle politics. Ineffective politics is not politics either. Who can play role under which type of politics is a matter for serious consideration. In our situation securing democratic facilities for opposition politics has to be the purpose, if not, then opposition politics is purposeless and honourably abandoned.
The shameful mismanagement in public affairs is the result of unaccountability of the government. Lives are lost, as if their lives are not important. Arbitrary use of police power has become easier because if the people’s vote can be ignored, so the people also can be ignored.
The government is the most disorganised for inefficiency of the incompetent people chosen for loyalty. Internationally condemned the last general election as the worst thing to happen under the guise of democracy. Amnesty International has repeatedly cautioned about the breach of human rights. There is nothing brave for the opposition political parties to echo the same and express dumb ignorance about the nightly robbery of the election.
Nobody can have a disagreement that there is no freedom for the opposition leaders to engage in political activities. They can only make cautious press statements. There is so much fear and panic for police power that hundreds of political workers and others are in jail for their dissent as members of the main opposition party. The government finds no reason to take the opposition seriously for showing any restraint.
There is no political fight in our politics there is only police cases to fight.
Let me cite an example from the days of Pakistan. During Ayub Khan’s rule in Pakistan days there was a time when Mr HS Suhrawardy along with other top leaders decided not to revive political parties before democratisation of politics.
The people’s election has become a farce and the political grip on power is being tightened towards the ambition of attaining one party rule. The BKSAL one party rule is being freshly praised by the government forgetting its deadly end. The people of Bangladesh were not struggling to have one party rule as opposed to democracy. Those who are in favour of killing democracy they are the ones who needed to understand the significance of the people’s liberation war.
The weakness of the leadership in opposition politics has proved as a tacit alignment with the government to facilitate its undemocratic agenda. The outsiders will think that in Bangladesh the present politics is accepted as business as usual.
The point is, if democratic tolerance is not available for effective opposition activities and the police power is treated as politics of fear then it is only honesty to admit that the democratic politics is not possible and shut down the politics of TV shows. But the political parties continue its futile existence merely to make people’s suffering worse and the government more emboldened.
It should not be acceptable for the opposition political parties to be part of the helplessness of the people and look for excuses to justify for perpetuating their ineffective existence. When such suffocating is the situation there may be self-satisfaction for some of being leaders. If they cannot overcome its election time difficulties, then it is better for them not to have opposition parties for bringing about no change.
Political parties are not talking shops waiting for God-given chances coming in their way. It hurts to see young party workers suffering and theirs’ right future turned into ashes by misguided leadership in politics.
Woes of the people are also not ameliorating.
There is nothing called idle politics. Ineffective politics is not politics either. Who can play role under which type of politics is a matter for serious consideration. In our situation securing democratic facilities for opposition politics has to be the purpose, if not, then opposition politics is purposeless and honourably abandoned.
The shameful mismanagement in public affairs is the result of unaccountability of the government. Lives are lost, as if their lives are not important. Arbitrary use of police power has become easier because if the people’s vote can be ignored, so the people also can be ignored.
The government is the most disorganised for inefficiency of the incompetent people chosen for loyalty. Internationally condemned the last general election as the worst thing to happen under the guise of democracy. Amnesty International has repeatedly cautioned about the breach of human rights. There is nothing brave for the opposition political parties to echo the same and express dumb ignorance about the nightly robbery of the election.
Nobody can have a disagreement that there is no freedom for the opposition leaders to engage in political activities. They can only make cautious press statements. There is so much fear and panic for police power that hundreds of political workers and others are in jail for their dissent as members of the main opposition party. The government finds no reason to take the opposition seriously for showing any restraint.
There is no political fight in our politics there is only police cases to fight.
Let me cite an example from the days of Pakistan. During Ayub Khan’s rule in Pakistan days there was a time when Mr HS Suhrawardy along with other top leaders decided not to revive political parties before democratisation of politics.
The people’s election has become a farce and the political grip on power is being tightened towards the ambition of attaining one party rule. The BKSAL one party rule is being freshly praised by the government forgetting its deadly end. The people of Bangladesh were not struggling to have one party rule as opposed to democracy. Those who are in favour of killing democracy they are the ones who needed to understand the significance of the people’s liberation war.
The weakness of the leadership in opposition politics has proved as a tacit alignment with the government to facilitate its undemocratic agenda. The outsiders will think that in Bangladesh the present politics is accepted as business as usual.
The point is, if democratic tolerance is not available for effective opposition activities and the police power is treated as politics of fear then it is only honesty to admit that the democratic politics is not possible and shut down the politics of TV shows. But the political parties continue its futile existence merely to make people’s suffering worse and the government more emboldened.
