Materialise Bangabandhu's dream
Forty years passed by after independence, yet no one seems to address the core problem the country is facing since the day one of its inception. No did even the fortunate incumbent prime minister, who escaped the gruesome killing as she was living abroad with her (late) professor husband. I wonder why the two-time prime minister Sheikh Hasina is not interested in implementing her late father's plan into reality. Had she implemented the plan that Bangabandhu was about to do, many of the problems would have been taken care of by themselves without extra effort. Many of the existing problems would have simply vanished with decentralisation as people from far flung areas would not have to throng the capital for a living. Everything in Bangladesh is Dhaka-based, as if there is nothing left of Bangladesh outside Dhaka. Bangladesh is a very small country compared to many countries of the world. Had decentralisation taken place as dreamt by late Bangabandhu, Bangladesh would have been a very different country. He perhaps planned to decentralise the country into 60 provinces thereby appointing 60 governors and late Motahar Hossain Talukder happened to be the designated governor for Sirajganj. But as ill-luck would have it, Bangabandhu along with other members of his family died at the hands of the assassins before he could implement his dream into a reality. One of the fortunate survivors of that fateful assassination is the incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana. As the prime minister of the country, I believe it is the sacred duty of Sheikh Hasina to implement her late father's dream into reality. In my humble opinion, this is the best way she can pay respect to her late father and this could be the second best thing for 160 million Bangladeshis next to independence.
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