Editorial
BCL attack on CPB-BSD rally
Indicative of an arrogant mindset
WHAT an irony! On the very day when the parliament with two-third AL majority was celebrating Democracy Day, when the PM was reasserting her commitment to the constitution and democracy to visiting UK MPs, when the PM's son was seeking votes for the Boat for the sake of democracy, we had the spectacle of the BCL activists attacking a political rally of CPB-BSD in Sylhet and injuring the CPB leader, on September 15. Why? Because of remarks made at the said rally they found objectionable.
The attack is a blatant display of arrogance, intolerance and indifference of the ruling party to public sentiments that has rubbed off on its appendages too. And while we commend the dissolution of the local BCL committee we have not heard a single word of condemnation from the central committee of either the BCL or the AL. It is even more ironic given the fact that it was an attack on a party with which AL's ideological convergence can be said to be substantive.
We condemn the violence which is indicative of a psyche that has been allowed to grow in the minds of the party workers at every level over a period of time, which the AL did not bother to curb. And this has motivated the type of behaviour from the AL appendages we witnessed in Sylhet. Unless there is demonstrative action against such acts, behaviour such as this may become deadweight for the party in the next general election.
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