AL supporters
Your two correspondents' reports from Sirajganj and Thakurgaon, along with the picture of the rampaged school office at Thakurgaon, reflect sadly on the discipline and orderliness on the part of AL supporters! The reports and the photograph were published in your pages on January 17. It is a sad yardstick of hooliganism of irresponsible AL party men who should be dealt with iron hands by the law keepers, if the AL seriously believes in the rule of law! Or is all this the result of connivance and indirect understanding among the party high-ups!
If this is not the case, and hopefully it is not so, then it reflects the utter failure of the administration under this party's governance, and for this they cannot shirk responsibility in any manner. As the saying goes, "the buck stops here"; whatever lame and hollow excuses the party and the government may have to offer. If the AL party and the government fail to rein-in their lawless supporters then their only and honourable democratic option is to resign from the government in the traditional, old and established norm of democracy!
But resigning after getting voted to power, however, is not in our political dictionary. Our political parties like to be kicked out of power.
Political norms as practiced by all our political parties is based on the subjective part of the popular saying "hear no evil, and say no evil"! The objective part of the saying; "do no evil" is non-existent!
Small wonder, most of the daily spontaneous news reports, published in daily newspapers, are full of these "evils" committed by supporters of various political parties! Majority of these are logically done by the party in power! Is this the right way?
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