“Law-avoiding” politicians
Your two front page reports (Dec:06) by Liton & Hassan; and another from Natore only goes to expose the character of almost all of our politicians who sadly represent us! For them breaking the law of the land is as common as having a cup of tea. There capability is in bluffs, lies, exploitation and fooling the people, which appears to be their expertise!
Irrespective of their party affiliation; which they also change as easily as changing "lungis"; for politicians, law breaking, tax evasion and criminal activities are the common stock in trade! No wonder, Bangladesh is considered by everyone in the world as one of the most corrupt countries.
All this is due to our politicians who are mostly responsible for this dirty image.
Now one can realise why political parties want all restrictions on nomination to be scrapped! But this is what no conscious citizen wants! We have had enough of being taken for a ride, for a long time over the last
37 years. Possibly, what the political parties desire is that the incumbent will only declare that he or she is alive and nothing else.
What they earn, how they earn it; what they have and how they got it is nobody's business. Asking for these by the authorities is interfering with their fundamental rights to "beg, borrow, buy or steal"!
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