Political sharks!
Beware of man-eaters in the Sundarbans. Also, beware of political sharks in the capital Dhaka.
The political parties and the MPs never talk about the man-eaters Iurking in the big cities and in the urban and rural areas. Take one example, the privatisation schemes of the government on the ailing public sector factories, we are witnessing for several decades.
Adamjee Jute Mills (world's largest) disappeared so efficiently. Jute our number one export, simply disappeared from the screen. Now we read our newspapers printed on imported newsprint. Why the English-medium schools are so popular (and costly); and what percentage of BD families patronise it, outside the big cities? What is this Coaching and Tutorial culture? Why the teachers are so busy from morning till night, and the quality of the examinees never rise?
Why the Mawa-Ganga bridge has become a question of life and death for a particular political parties, and must be completed within the current regime? Impossible.
Blame the voters, or the voting mechanism, the rules, or the motives?
Today we seem to have more man-eaters in Dhaka City than in the Sunderbans! Remedy: suck the milk of human kindness? Our adolescent politicians need vitamin perks and other fortifying treatment for reorientation towards the people, and erase attention on the self. Are we so thirsty that we dry up the deltaic river waters; and seek more water from the dammed rivers in India? One has to be cunning in political propaganda, keeping both ends intact.
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