Great going for MPs!
In our country the elected public representatives traditionally use their authority to build and secure their own future forgetting their pledges & promises to the general people who elected them. But the matter seems to get further momentum with the MPs of the present national parliament. Although nothing tangible has yet been done for the common people, we learn every day of new measures to reinforce the rights and benefits of the MPs. They have been made kings of Upazilas rendering Upazila Chairmen just figureheads, MPs will have huge authority over implementing local development projects in their constituencies through the LGRD ministry, they have been assured of rise in their remuneration and allowances, each MP will get separate office on the JS premises, they will also get free cars, drivers with fuel and shall own the vehicles against a symbolic price at end of their tenure.
Some people are even asking why we need parliament/ MPs at all! They are the lawmakers but in the past they have been found to be frontrunners in breaking the laws as most of them do not even pay the utility bills. Pictures of the abandoned luxury vehicles on the streets are still vivid in our memory. The stories / facts that are being published every day about the trio of the last parliament who abused their power to plunder public money uncover nothing unusual or unexpected. On making laws we only see parliament playing the role of a rubber stamp. What their party or more specifically their party head says, they only support that without any second thought. One can even see competition among MPs to prove their degree of allegiance to their party boss. As this is the real case, why then the country needs this white elephant parliament!
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