Confrontation ahead?
We are so scared of what is in store for us in the very near future as the BNP from the very day it was trounced in the election of 2008, apart from making sweeping accusations and allegations against the AL-led Mohajote government, called for mid-term election as according to it, the AL led govt. was persecuting its activists, was failing to deliver and was not releasing the scions of Begum Zia. In a dispassionate observation, they are too harsh and born out of political vendetta, though the AL has in some sectors glaring failures to draw flake. But BNP leaders have been saying all these in their party office and at other forums without caring a damn for their moral obligation and commitment to the nation. The people, however, well understand their anguish of being out of power but they would not put their hubris aside to soul-search about their misdeeds or follies and frailties.
The recent visit to India of the prime minister and the accords clinched by her made the BNP more vitriolic. BNP Chairperson Begum Zia has in her read-out statement before the journalists threatened that her party with the country's people would launch a movement to stop implementation of the accord as according to her, Sheikh Hasina has given out everything to India, instead of gaining anything from it, more specifically she has sold out the country (Bangladesh) and its sovereignty to India.
The opposition has every democratic right to oppose the accords, but preaching against the accords outside, instead of deliberating on them in the House of the Nation, may mislead the people. The BNP while in opposition in 1996-2001 did undertake a long march to thwart implementation of the Peace Treaty with the Shanti Bahini which, though acclaimed by the world, was left out in the cold by the BNP while back in power in 2001. In fact, the BNP is now crying wolf.
It is well apprehended, as the AL General Secretary put it in reply to BNP's claim and blame, the hanging of the killers of Bangabandhu, bringing the culprits of August carnage (August 21,2004) to justice and trial of war criminals are the few disquieting issues that have gravely upset the BNP and its allies.
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