Depoliticise public institutions
The new popular regime has one basic undertaking: to depoliticise the established public institutions. We all have bitter experience of the adverse and negative cumulative effects.
This task deserves top priority, [and not the hurry to construct another bridge over the Ganges]. This policy announcement is awaited with eagerness.
The students' unions are also in turmoil--handling 'change' in a subjective manner. How the labour unions and the CBAs are going to be neutralised? These are backdoor development projects under each changing political regime. Why the diplomatic silence? Stop lobbying in the corridors of power.
The MPs should not be hidden godfathers in the districts, and at the lower levels of local governance. The divisional and district HQs are not developing. The idea of turning the divisions into provinces should be thoroughly debated in the JS [decentralise the overburdened Dhaka metro- the chain of kickbacks is longer in centralised regimes].
Start with neutralising the civil service. The ministers are discreetly silent on the existence of political syndicates operating in the background in every nook and cranny of the dry-cleaned society. Talk sensibly--not to get popular.
There is no network in existence in the current political culture--letters are never acknowledged or later responded to [as in the British era]. The problem is that the vast majority of the voters [especially in the rural areas] have no holding power to press home their grievances [ no independent local governance].
Don't talk down, arrogantly--it repels; while humility attracts. Neutral governance invites re-election!
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