Cry for democracy
The outcry by the local political leaders for democracy in Bangladesh continues as usual. But if we carefully analyse the interests behind this outcry it becomes very clear that their cries are merely for their own benefits. They merely use democracy as a means to grab power, a ladder to climb on to the top. Unfortunately, very few political leaders in Bangladesh ever practised democracy when they were in any kind of power. That is why we saw whenever they were in power the leaders made their brothers or sisters MPs, brother in laws ministers, nephews and cousins ministers, sons future leaders of the parties, irrespective of their qualifications or experience! They do not like to see democracy within their own parties/institutions, in their ways of business. They are intolerant to any kind of opposition. They like democracy only when the result of an election goes in favour of them. They are not ashamed of rigging the election to get their own candidates elected. They are not ashamed of modifying election rules to influence the election. Even after all these, if the outcome goes against them they start crying foul, start street agitation. They do not care about ordinary people being killed.
All they want is the ladder back!
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