Oversized cabinet undercuts PM's efforts
Time and again I asked myself whether Khaleda Zia has the ability to run the administration smoothly and efficiently while so many around her are busy in making fortunes for themselves. The result of the 1991 election, which was in favour of the BNP, had baffled top ranking leaders of the party including it's chairperson Khaleda Zia. As she has had no previous experience in running a government, or as a Member of Parliament, she found it difficult to run the administration and that too in a parliamentary type of government.
WE thought things will be different this time. But we proved wrong. Although people voted the BNP led alliance overwhelmingly and it formed a government with more than two- thirds majority, an oversized cabinet seems to have tied her hands. I feel strongly that to please other leaders of her party, Khaleda Zia formed a jumbo-sized cabinet. Here the quantity has supplanted quality. May be that's why the government is performing so poorly in running the country. The PM should trim her cabinet an empower those most needed to fix the nation's concerns.
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