Missing the truth?
Thirty six years since independence the country is still reeling in political uncertainly. From the initial socialist form of economy to mixed economy, from parliamentary to presidential system of government, to military takeover and now the caretaker government, Bangladesh has seen it all. The trial and error way of finding the right form of governing a country has become a never-ending fiasco. Perhaps we have missed the truth-- that it is not the form of government which builds a nation but the people who run it do. A flight in a rough weather is as good as the skills of the pilot flying the plane. And now a new mathematical formula of a minus two government, that of leaving out the present heads of the two main political parties from contesting in the election.
The hauling of political bigwigs in recent corruption cases tells the grim story. How the politicians who took the oath of defending the country engaged in looting the national exchequer. The pursuit and accumulation of wealth by these public servants went unchecked and undeterred.
We are not individually, but collectively responsible for the miserable state in our history. One group criminally bleeding the country and the other allowing them to do so.
Will the next election make a difference? The election may be fair, but what about the people to be elected? The same band of people-- the same end result. Where does it end? Who checks the government in power for its misdeeds when the lawmakers become the lawbreakers!
Perhaps this is the last chance for a caretaker government to overhaul the entire political system with the criterion of people elected in mind. For in future, we may not get to see another caretaker government. The next political government with the same band will in all probability ensure that there is no neutral referee to put their kind in jail for the crimes the public servants commit.
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