Release of top leaders
The year 2008, the long awaited election year for the people of Bangladesh has dawned with a lot of hopes and aspirations. The EC (Election Commission) has declared a roadmap for a free, fair and credible election this year. This is the first time the people of Bangladesh are expecting to cast their votes with voter ID bearing their photos. There is lot of enthusiasm among public to enlist their names as voters. As the election time is nearing the voices of some of the leaders of certain political parties are becoming louder every day. They are dreaming that their old days are coming back and the people are always with them as they were and ready to sacrifice their lives for them as they did in the past, as if they (these leaders) have not done any wrong to the people and were not involved in any anti-people activities. They are trying to make the people believe that all the actions against them by the present CTG are vindictive. They are clean and "fuler mato pabitra"-- the slogan their supporters used for them.
They have started threatening the government to bring their captured leaders out of jail through agitation. But people do not want to go back to the pre-1/11 days. They know these leaders. They will not believe their cheap promises any more, except those who were beneficiaries of their misrule.
I believe people will not join in any agitation to release those leaders who were arrested on charges of corruption. The arrested leaders should come out clean through the judicial process. They must prove their innocence before the court and not through street agitation any more. Nothing was moving in this country without greasing the hands of those leaders. Even foreign investment was blocked by these leaders and high government officials.
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