Election manifesto
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The two major political parties, the Awami League and the BNP, have unveiled their election manifestoes to the people to share with them what these two major parties have in mind to run the country in the next five years, if elected. Surprisingly, election manifestoes of these two major parties are splendid with well-defined goals, people oriented ideas and have similarity to each other with little exceptions. Both the parties want to make fast progress on many development issues and revitalization of many specific infrastructure developments aiming to make the country a middle range (national) income state by the middle of next decade. The manifestoes of both the parties have been acclaimed and applauded by many professional groups, economists and social thinkers and business groups, social reformers and intellectuals. The general masses of the country are very passionately looking forward to how these two major parties live up to their election manifestoes and the election mandates, having experienced 1/11/2007. Many of the development sectors are in a stalemate, despite many positive improvements. But the current high prices of foods and daily essentials have put the common people and daily earners in a very precarious position and many of them are half fed and have been struggling to survive. Since independence the country has made progress in many sectors, like garments, infrastructure, educational development, remittance from wage earners, the GDP rate also remains moderately good despite many impediments like political uncertainty, power cuts, natural disasters and corruption etc. Over the last couple of years we came across a number of election manifestos of the major political parties and all those good initiatives were very nicely jotted down with eye catching words, but after going to power many of them either put them under the table or carried them out partially. I am sure 1/11 will remain a source of learning, we should proceed steadily to achieve our objectives by formulating a very pragmatic action plan to keep pace with the global needs and progress, so that the country could easily move forward. We don't want to see any more political crisis, unnecessary hartal, harassment, destruction and damage of national properties. We expect a working relationship between the ruling and opposition parties and some good plans have been included in the election manifestoes of the two parties for achieving this goal.
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