Our young ones must shape their own future and forget looking back for the failed leadership. The old leadership has done lasting damage to the present generation of young ones. The young ones have no safe or a hopeful future to look forward.
Our young educated ones should know that politics is an enlightened process of governance. There is no room for whims or caprices. Many philosophers from Plato to Rousseau and others taught us what politics is. Vandalism, cheating or corruption with public money cannot be called politics. With deep knowledge and a sense of big responsibility towards the people makes the person a political leader.
Democracy killing politicisation left no area of public life untouched. The university teachers and students have also had no hesitation to be activists of unprincipled and divisive party politics. Most repulsive is the fact that the student leaders with knowledge of university authority could organise torture cells in public universities. So much damage has been done to higher education was unthinkable for us.
The academic atmosphere at universities remains vicious most of the time for intolerance and antagonism among students and teachers for partisan politics. This cannot be called politics for healthy future of the students or the country.
Whoever have taught money making business as politics they are enemies of everything that is good for a decent society. University students must give up being party activists of no politics. Their politics must be knowledge-based. They must know the party politics as a science of governance and a democratic constitution provides the structure of good governance. Neither politics nor governance is a personal affair.
In the new Bangladesh, taking advantage of our inexperienced leadership the purpose of politics has changed to be mainly cheating and looting of public funds for the self. Character and principle have no place in our current greedy politics. Such a situation cannot be acceptable to self-respecting people.
We of the outgoing generation have realised with big regret and sad disappointment that present politics of police power is not liable to be changed in a democratic way, our way. Those who are in power taunt the opposition for not being able to show enough street power.
There is shame in the fact that thousands of opposition leaders and workers are in jail facing thousands of police cases. To the government politics means police cases.
A people’s government must recognise people as the source of legitimacy to be in power. Our police will be our police. Our public servants are to serve us as our men and women. The armed forces must remain unquestionably faithful to the people. Political division must not divide them. They must be trusted as the best hope in the face of danger.
We must together make our Liberation War as the people’s liberation war for our freedom. Those who are not aware of this truth they cannot be called freedom fighters. The new generation will be our freedom fighters.
The young protesters of Hong Kong have confirmed our belief that our approach to bring needed change peacefully through dialogue and debate has not worked and will not work.
The young protesters of Hong Kong set a bold example of taking charge of their future in their own hands despite the fear of likely ruthless intervention by the main land China. They did not look behind and wait for their elders for their leadership to go forward in protecting Hong Kong’s democratic identity and the people’s democratic freedom.
Thousands of young protesters poured in the city centre accepting the challenge of dire threats from the main land China. Heavy handedness of China’s government and public resentment of it are the primary causes of the uprising of the young ones. They turned the Polytechnic University into a fortress. The determination of China to assert greater authority over Hong Kong was resisted by the brave young protesters, mostly from the universities.
They have battled with the police in the face of their aggressive attacks. Towards the end they barricaded themselves inside two campuses. Many of them have been jailed. One of them lost his life in clashes with the police. But the young ones have never wavered or cowed down. That is the force of selfless patriotism. They were the best of their people.
They have battled with the police in the face of their aggressive attacks. Towards the end they barricaded themselves inside two campuses. Many of them have been jailed. One of them lost his life in clashes with the police. But the young ones have never wavered or cowed down. That is the force of selfless patriotism. They were the best of their people.
In support of the uprising of the young ones, this week America’s Congress passed a bill, nearly unanimously, requiring the government to apply sanctions to officials guilty of abusing human rights in Hong Kong.
Later the protesting students took part in the local elections and won a landslide victory for democratic parties. Thanks to the Hong Kong government that they did not use police to hijack the election.
The crisis in Bangladesh is much worse. The democratic institutions have been made unworkable to run the government as a personal affair. No people can boast of freedom where the judiciary is not free from fear for doing justice.
Despite our long continued struggle of democracy, the people are languishing in fear of police cases with no protection of the rule of law. Our younger generation has to defeat fear to make sense of freedom and independence.
Solution to the burning problems like mismanagement of incompetence and endemic corruption is not easy. Corruption is a killer of all human values. But at the same time we do not expect the younger generation to barter away their future unchallenged. As there is no effective government, it is waiting to be falling apart in chaos.
Solution to the burning problems like mismanagement of incompetence and endemic corruption is not easy. Corruption is a killer of all human values. But at the same time we do not expect the younger generation to barter away their future unchallenged. As there is no effective government, it is waiting to be falling apart in chaos.
The void in leadership has to be filled in by the younger generation. Unless they shape the present there is no worthy future for them or their country.
The young ones need to understand that their great hope for a bright future is being throttled. They must use their youthful power and vitality to bring about change essential for restoring honour and dignity of politics as selfless public service.
The present belongs to the younger generation for guiding their future. They must rise to give leadership for making their dreams come true.
No respectable nation can live with criminalised politics. We have too many betrayers, but not all of us.
