Editorial
Unprincipled politics costing dear
How long will the people be held hostage to it?
WITH the five BNP leaders sent to jail on non-specific and apparently trumped up charges such as 'attempted murder of cops and creating violence in the capital' and the party leadership virtually immobilised, the atmosphere is rife with speculation as to what lies in store for the people. Particularly mind-boggling is the desperately repressive mode the government has gone into. The situation is all the more compounded and being pushed into dire straits due to unabated shutdowns making a tally of 204 hours in the last three weeks alone.
The is a complete u-turn in the overall context; how close we were getting into a possibility of unlocking of horns between the contending political parties through a start to a dialogue process! The bottom line the major political parties appeared to be settling for is a meeting at the secretaries' general level which could be an ice-breaker in time generating a momentum for hammering out a consensual package on poll time government at the highest level.
Rather than building up on that positive note following the telephonic conversation between the two leaders, what we have now is a diametrically opposite scenario.
The violence packed pre-hartal and hartal days are claiming innocent lives, costing the economy dearly and severely disrupting education schedules, not to mention a growing sense of insecurity among the citizenry and the shying away of business orders and investments. How long will the nation be held ransom to the whims of the political supremoes?
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