Lacklustre cabinet
The prime minister as head of the government seems to retain the exclusive right or absolute power to choose her cabinet colleagues and the state ministers to run the state, of course in a better, if not best, way and so did our PM Sheikh Hasina. She inducted new faces, and there was not an iota of doubt about her sincerity that her first and foremost concern was how the well being of the people through good governance could be ensured. But it was and is still generally believed that the novices who had never walked down near the corridor of ministerial realm and were even unaware of the A B Cs of ministerial stints could hardly be able to steer the nation, bursting with sea of problems, to fulfil Sheikh Hasina's 'great expectation'. The old guards of her party have been left out in the cold for, people guess, Sheikh Hasina while behind the bar, smelt a rat in the activities of the party stalwarts that were purported to be the machinations to minus her. It is true they had caved in to the invisible threats, but they are still obsequiously loyal to her and depriving them of cabinet berth was not a good omen as observed by the countrymen. Political acumen and experience with sagacity and maturity and above all wit and diplomacy with eloquence are the prerequisites for one to hold the reins of the statecraft. The persons chosen to head our Home and Foreign Affairs direly lack the above and their performance as of today in no way goes to give them any kudos. Law and order remains as worse as ever.
One thing needs be consumed, if the ranks and files who get the dictates find their top brasses unsavoury, expected achievement would remain a far cry. And that the present bunch of ministers barring a few could not deliver is in fact the talk of the country. The old guards are still the precious assets of the AL, and to save the party as well as the government from future brinkmanship, they need to be reckoned with.
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