Institutions weakening

Even without Transparency International Bangladesh having to inform us, people across the board know the manner in which governance has been on a slide. What TIB does, though, is give us all the actual arithmetic of how things have been going wrong at those very places where the state as an institution must assert itself. To be fair, the government for its part commissioned a National Integrity Study back in 2012 as a means of finding the ways and means of rejuvenating the institutions of the state. Unfortunately, the NIS appears to have yielded little result, for reasons that TIB now has come forward with and with which there can be little disagreement.
Essentially, over the years and especially in recent times, there has been an enormous increase in the powers of the prime minister, to an extent that a parliamentary form of government does not encourage. That has meant a worsening in the performance of such institutions as the Jatiyo Sangsad, hobbled as it has been by the absence of a credible opposition over the years dating back to the early 1990s. Add to that a weakening of the judiciary along with a blatant politicization of the civilian bureaucracy and the police. The ramifications have been disturbing, to a point where expectations of justice and a desire for good administration consistently turn out to be misplaced.
Unless this tendency toward personalized government is checked, and checked decisively, it could well become a dangerous precedent for the future. Without checks and balances, governments stumble. At a point, the state itself is rendered weak.