Editorial
PM's resolve to be firm
Be tough not on students but on corrupt
Recently the prime minister has said that she knew very well how to be tough in dealing with students' protest. Such firmness was expressed while she was commenting on the ongoing BUET imbroglio.
While we welcome heartily the PM's intention to be firm, we cannot expect anything but from the head of the government in dealing with national issues, we are constrained to say that students are not quite the ones that the PM ought to apply her firmness on.
There are a raft of issues and number of persons that should have been at the receiving end of her firmness, but weren't. There are so many pressing concerns other than the protesting students that should have been handled with firmness and fairness. On the contrary we are dismayed to see the partisan handling of these matters. And it is the perception of the public that such an attitude on the part of the head of the government, on a constant mode of denial, is an attempt to shield her advisors and ministers, some of whose probity has been called in to question. It seems that instead of dealing with them with a heavy hand she is given in to them.
We would have been very happy to see the resolve of the PM to stem the spate of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance. We would have welcomed her pronouncements to address the allegations against some of her colleagues related to the Padma Bridge funding. We have heard nothing from her regarding the railway scam, and the less we say about the share and Sonali Bank scam the better.
We wonder whether it has occurred to the prime minister or any of her colleagues in the cabinet that the palpable inertia on the prime minister and her government's part in dealing with these issues has had a serious and deleterious impact on the quality of governance, whose manifestation we are witnessing in every walk of life. The situation should be redressed, and firmly.
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