Festering criminalisation in ruling party
HOW venal and vicious has become the criminality in ruling party politics is revealing in shocking details with each passing day. Both in the cases of Phulgazi upazilla chairman Ekramul Haq and seven serial murder in Narayanganj this is happening in spite of the diversionary, shielding, sweeping-under-the carpet and blame-these-on-the-other party attempts by ruling party leaders.
With the opposition crushed through morally and democratically untenable election, law enforcement agencies politicized and used and local support base pampered, satraps for collusive criminalisation have thrived rather seamlessly. In an environment like this each tried to extract a pound of flesh from the other. Basically, internal feuding and simmering rivalries centering around expropriation of public wealth, tender business and rent-seeking were bound to generate fierce forms of clash of interests. And thus were masterminded plots of murder with hired killers to execute these.
Organised crime syndicates are an upshot of criminalisation of party politics. When the line between the ruling party and the government is blurred, criminalisation draws sustenance from it. In the process the state's authority to protect citizens dwindles.
On available evidence, it appears that the AL has been infiltrated by some criminal elements. A party of AL's tradition and history replete with contributions to every stage of the country's journey to freedom cannot afford corrosion of its image through the presence of any malcontent. It must be flushed clean.
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