Editorial
Khaleda Zia's Sylhet speech
Our comments on two of her points
Khaleda Zia has promised the youth that they would be handed over county's leadership if her party wins the next general election.
This is a very welcome step forward in grooming the young generation of the nation to come forward and take leadership. There is also no alternative to this, if we as a people want to take the nation forward and catch up with the rest of the world in all spheres of development. And that is more so at a time when we are mired not only in a national crisis, but also one of global proportions.
We would appreciate, if the opposition leader as well as her party leaders and workers begin to work in earnest to imbue the younger generation with higher ideals of selflessness, morality and patriotism as opposed to prevailing practice of naked philistinism. We would take her words seriously if she would make clear that it is NOT her son that she has in mind when talking about handing over power to the young. We remember Hawa Bhaban with all its "young" members. We also recall how her son had appointed "young" state or deputy ministers who were instrumental in immobilising their seniors, and how these "young" leaders influenced Khaleda Zia's own government, including incidents like the 21st August killings.
At the Sylhet rally, she also demanded release of some leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of her alliance partners. Unfortunately, she did not stop there, she even dragged the issue of trial of crimes against humanity and genocide perpetrated on Bengalee people to equate it with the excesses by the Rakkhi Bahini during the post-independent government. How Rakkhi Bahini excesses could be bracketed with crimes against humanity is beyond our comprehension.
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