AL govt fails to deliver electoral promises
Discussion told
The Awami League-led government has failed to implement its "Charter for Change", as most electoral pledges remain undelivered in the last four years, speakers told a roundtable yesterday.
They identified corruption, lack of good governance, deterioration of law and order situation, price hikes of daily commodities, politicisation of the administration, criminal activities by party men and political "blame game" with the opposition as the major barriers to implementing the manifesto.
M Hafizuddin Khan, president of Shujan, which organised the roundtable at the capital's Jatiya Press Club, claimed that there had been neither any initiative nor any action plan to implement the charter for change.
About the recent defence deal with Russia, he said, "When our primary education, health, communications and other fundamental sectors remain in a poor state, the government has given priority on purchasing arms. We cannot understand with whom we will engage in war."
A former adviser to caretaker government, Hafizuddin, strongly criticised the government for increasing electricity and fuel prices repeatedly. He also demanded a new law giving death penalty to food adulterators.
Shujan Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar said the government had achieved successes in war crimes trial, execution of Bangabandhu killers, curbing militancy, and development of education but failed to earn people's trust due to corruption, extortion, violence by its party men, and price hikes.
He termed uncertainty over holding the next parliamentary election as the major problem now.
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