Khaleda Zia's cantonment house
The government should allow Khaleda Zia to remain in her cantonment house. People are passing their days in great misery. Power, water and gas shortage has become acute. In addition, prices of essential commodities have gone out of reach of common people and crimes of all sorts have increased manifold. Instead of tackling all these serious problems, it seems that the government is bent upon creating further distress for the people by asking Begum Khaleda Zia to vacate the cantonment house. It will definitely create an upheaval in the political field and the common people will sufferer. We do not want fresh unrest; it is the government's duty to see that people live in peace, not to shatter it.
We have learned that the house was registered in the name of Begum Zia, after President Ziaur Rahman was assassinated. Is it necessary to evict her from that house where she has been living for so many years?
We do not understand why it has become so important to acquire that piece of land at the cost of unrest it will create. And people will look down on the Awami League government. We wonder whether the army really wants that land, to get which they will have to evict the widow of a former army chief.
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