The naming business!
Perhaps nobody relishes seeing the signboards that introduce many institutions named after Begum Khaleda Zia and they all have been done to portray her as an 'extraordinary' leader, but without thinking if such naming was at all fitting for the incumbent PM who, I say without any malice, could hardly evince any leadership acumen to deliver anything exemplary for the well-being of the people, or for that matter of the nation, that people regardless of their race or religion would go remembering her as a worthy PM the nation had ever had after it came into being. If dispassionately judged, apart from her discredited and disgraceful position as of now, she had done nothing remarkable as twice PM of Bangladesh. She left no marks in the political precincts, the only area she could throw herself in because of the death of her husband. She rather destroyed the edifice of redeemed and resuscitated democratic polity in Bangladesh by her and her party's absolute rule ( the elected president of the country was sacked arbitrarily, the nation's parliament, the seat of democracy was practically reduced to BNP-Jamaat's hub for exercising their exclusive rights and privileges, especially for hurling diatribes against the opposition or belittling the latter's proposal so that it would abstain from democratic process and, made its speaker a 'stooge'), vitiated every institution and establishment with naked wholesale politicisation. And as you know of the abyss of unbridled and unprecedented corruption the whole administrative apparatus of the country has been let to sink during her last tenure. People felt disgusted at her enduring efforts to bring her two sons, brother(s), sisters, nephews and nieces and their cronies into the sphere of power.
Of the hundreds, these are the only four instances of her glaringly bad governance. Begum Zia could easily insult a dead poet by withdrawing the poet's name from the Central Public Library!
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