Cancellation of lease
If it is looked upon from public interest and from the point of inadmissibility of conducting political activities in a restricted and sensitive zone, the proposed cancellation of the lease to Begum Zia of her cantonment residence in no way goes against the tenets or ethics. Earlier, as the people were unaware of such a vast land being under the occupation of a single family, they had nothing to say against, but now they do not sympathize with the family.
It is veritably a million dollar question if the family of late Zia (announcer of the declaration of Independence and later President of BD) could be rewarded with such residences, why the family of the slain architect of this nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (only two daughters spared) and those of the many martyred freedom fighter military officers were deprived of such privileges? One military dictator made charities of two residences to the family of another dictator! It is morally unethical to keep such a vast land under occupation when there is acute shortage of a piece of land in Dhaka. When crores of people have no roof to live under, it does not seem rational on her part to keep so much land for her lavish use.
On the other hand, when the government is faced with many other vital issues to address, the step to cancel the lease right at this moment appears to be just injudicious. The government has in fact stirred a hornet's nest and the confrontational unrest that may follow will simply scuttle people's expectations of the change that the AL is committed to deliver.
The priority should be how to resolve, among many other grinding/crippling issues, the hellish load-shedding and rein in the rogues in the party organs who have already caused cracks in the image of the government, not the cancellation of the lease.
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