No opposition!
Is the opposition fading away? Its contribution at the JS sittings is hardly noticeable.
The two-year interim period by the non-political caretaker government has opened the eyes of the political parties and the voters. Now the national events are being analysed in new perspectives. What is the regime offering?
The new political regime is faced with multi-problems of the changing society; and is yet to settle down to normal routine level. What is has offered during the first quarter of the first year is not enough to appease the expectations of the masses. What is required is internal change {from the heart] in the approach to national problems, and priorities. The old microphone techniques are out of date. The political 'mobility factor' has to rise. What is it? Ask the leaders.
The times are different. The global focus is on South Asia; therefore the local regimes have to sharpen their foresight and judgement values. Preventive measures have to be rehearsed for unexpected events like the BDR carnage.
Get out of the old grooves, and show the people new tracks. The poor standard of politics is akin to the current state of the neglected BR [Bangladesh Railways]. The regime is hurrying with new mega projects [like another bridge on the lower side of the Ganges; and subway train network, instead of sky rail as a pilot project]; and not paying attention to urgent BMRE schemes. Why the trial of the war criminals has to be held right now, and cannot wait till the end of the year?
Two cementing factors are missing; political consensus at the national level: and national division due to the rivalry between two dynasty rules. The old order is not changing; we are lagging behind the global caravan in the desert of wilderness.
Leadership is there, but where is the lead? We are dragging heavy lead (metal)! We Bengalees are a society of adda-baaz; and loiter about in leisure dress, unfit to climb the Everest! There is no plain living in the plains of deltaic Bangladesh. It is akaash-kushum, plainly speaking.
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