AL's manifesto
Your staff correspondent's front-page report on Al's manifesto on 12th December appears reasonably pragmatic. However, completing it in their term of office, should they win, seems difficult. And if they are replaced by their arch-enemy BNP, come next election, then even the realistic goal of 5,000MW power by 2011 will disappear. The real life example is there when even their MoU for power plant was summarily cancelled in a very foolish manner, as soon as they were succeeded by the BNP. To top it, after that the BNP could not even add 1MW of power when they were in office.
Maybe, now the BNP should opt for having the most modern automatic candle production factory in their manifesto! The fact is that at least the US and Canadian power plant makers are not interested in bidding in Bangladesh; and even if they do, they will add on at least 20percent "cancellation cost", to cover for sudden cancellations, without any rhyme or reason.
Regarding the other manifesto items like ACC, degree level free education, permanent wage and pay commission, trial of war criminals and one job per family-- all these could also be scrapped, once power changes hand.
Possibly jobs for youth and free education up to the graduation level; being touchy issues, may be continued by the BNP. However, they are bound to make the ACC weaker; so that they make hay when the sun shines, as they are addicted to skim milk and honey from all possible government expenditures!
Given this childish and immature outlook, particularly of the BNP, possibly short time and ad-hoc ideas should be framed on year to year basis; because given their past practice, whatever the AL does, the BNP has to undo it-- be it good, bad or indifferent.
To sum up, the "AL- BNP" can only be " All Legitimate- But Not Possible!"
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