Follow good examples
I heard from reliable elders that during the 1943 Bengal famine, Dhaka Nawab families (Ahsan Manzil-based 2nd family and Armanitola-based 3rd family) had changed their eating habits: whole-grain chapati (servants' food) was included and 'faan' (rice-starch/'maar') was not spared. This is one of the reasons why people had confidence in them and they were the leaders of their times.
Why not those who run the government and their families queue up at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)-run fair price shops to buy rice - even as a symbolic gesture?
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