Political situation
Eddie Anwar, Gulshan, Dhaka
All the democratic institutions have been deliberately destroyed in the last 15 years, while the two major parties were in power. Starting from Parliament, the Election Commission, the Public Service Commission, the Anti-Corruption Commission, the bureaucracy and, above all, the higher judiciary, and the list goes on. The three pillars of the state: The Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary have been used and abused repeatedly in the name of democracy. Those who actively participated in raping these sacrosanct institutions are today talking about reforms. The way they are going about reforming and the urgency that they are showing about it only portray a cover-up, a means of quickly returning to their old ways. Their intent is questionable. The present CTG has shown us that true reforms are possible. It has done in 6 months what these so called democratic politicians could not in the past 15 years. Today, we have an active ACC, the PSC is being restructured, the Judiciary is being made independent, the EC is being made fully independent of executive control etc. Reforms are being done. What the political parties think is not important. There is no hurry. True structural reforms will take time as the system has been so badly damaged. And the people of this country are ready to wait. When democracy returns, it should truly return for the people, by the people and of the people.
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