Power base
The first free, fair and credible election, held in the country on December 29, has amply proved that the ultimate power is the "people", the days of election engineering, through various party fronts, and methods like using muscle power for capturing of polling centres, snatching of ballot boxes, creating panic among the voters, is out of date. The students' fronts, namely Student League, Jatiyotabadi Chhatra Dal, Shibir, could not do much to bring their sponsor parties to power, because the people, this time, could vote freely and express their individual opinions freely. I hope the political parties have realised where their power base is. It is the people and not a few student fronts of the AL that have brought the party to power.
The AL should handle the unruly students as the way they were handled by the CTG for the last 2 years. No matter what, the present government should deal with the present situation in the campuses and restore a peaceful atmosphere for study. A few should not be allowed to damage careers of the many in the name of student politics.
I urge upon the government to invite all parties, including the opposition, to sit together and find ways to bring peace in the educational institutions. We want the government to deal with this problem with an iron hand by restricting the hands of those who are behind the unrest and are trying to undermine the process of change that people are waiting for so many years.
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