Editorial
Vandalism again!
The sense of impunity must be eliminated
In the latest incident of highhandedness allegedly by some ruling party elements, the youth development complex in Kashiani upazila was vandalised by a group of people led, reportedly, by an office bearer of the local AL. Not only offices of the complex, but also the upazila officers' dorms, were damaged by the hooligans.
And the reason, as we can make out, why the youth development office suffered the wrath of these people is that the candidates of the said office bearer, the Kashiani UZ AL social welfare secretary, did not feature in the list of candidates for training at the youth development center. It may be mentioned that the said complex has so far trained almost 1000 unemployed youths in the first phase of its operation and are due to train another 1000 in the second phase.
Contrary to the Prime Minister's repeated warnings some ruling party members cannot come unstuck from the predisposition towards demanding as right everything from tender for government and semi-government works to hostel seats to admission in the universities to admission in various training institutions at thana and upazila levels, you name it.
Surely, the government functionaries have to go by the book in allotting vacancies and giving admission to various institutions. And they are under great pressure, from time to time to bend the rules to accommodate recommendations of the powerful and politically linked. Those who stand steadfast against such illegal demands either suffer personally by way of premature posting to a new and difficult place or are subjected to physical harassment as we saw happen in Kashiani.
What is often overlooked is that in accommodating such unjust demands it is the unfit and undeserved that take place of the deserving candidates. Ultimately it is the nation that suffers and the credibility of and the confidence in the government of the day takes an irreversible tumble. To stem the situation it is for the AL to differentiate between the party and the government in order to be able to fulfill its electoral writ.
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