Reform issue
Mohammad Ataul Hoque, On e-mail
Recently, some politicians from the two rival major political parties in their bid to please their party chiefs stated that any reform in the party would have to be made by retaining the existing party chiefs. This has totally disappointed the vast majority who expected at least there were some sensible leaders in the political organisations who for the sake of the country's welfare would seek a change in the leadership of their parties. We do not understand how a person with a modicum of patriotism could think of retaining a person as their party-head whose family members, close party aides and the ministers are languishing in jail on alleged charges of extortion, corruption, theft of relief materials and so many other criminal activities. No one from the party appears to have ever questioned their leader how those criminal activities could happen right under the nose of that leader. It is now clear those criminal activities were carried out with direct or indirect consent of the party leader in exchange of sharing the benefit. This is an unthinkable example of shameless sycophancy by the benefit-seekers within the party. Such attitude only gives a message to everybody that the present political leaderships within the parties are not interested in the welfare of the country and its people but interested in their own benefits only. The latest move by the leader of a political party in allocating her brother an important portfolio in the party unilaterally is a glaring example of the continued intention to retain family control over the party leadership in total defiance of the popular sentiments both in the country and within the party itself. The leader of the other major political party has stated that, there is a "suffocating situation" in the country in the absence of democracy. May I ask that leader what type of democracy she was referring to ? Was it hartal, blockade, killing of people with logi and baitha, arson and destruction of public properties? That was a suffocating situation for the public but for that leader perhaps it was an ideal situation. May Allah save us from the clutches of those so-called leaders of the political parties.
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