BNP's dilemma
Our memory is still fresh to look back at the incidents of political/legal battle fought by the BNP leaders to maintain the status quo of the cantonment house donated by the then government after the death of president Zia. The house is in the most restricted area, and public entry is either restricted or subject to permission of Begun Zia. The news is not clear whether Begum Zia sent any list to the cantonment security to allow her guests to visit her on Eid day.
It is also important to note that Begum Zia is abstaining from attending parliament due to security concerns. Therefore, one should not draw any simple conclusion as the Secretary General of the BNP has done through his statement to the press for public information. The cantonment security can and should tell us their story of the incident.
I think it is irony that a national leader, twice prime minister and opposition leader, is more eager to stay in the cantonment area and continue her political briefings and oversight of a major political party from the cantonment, a known restricted area all over the world. It is high time for her to re-evaluate her decision to continue to stay in the cantonment area and fight necessary eventualities politically and legally.
If my memory is not wrong, I remember Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader, was not allowed to visit a seriously sick educationist who was admitted in the Combined Military Hospital located in the cantonment. He ultimately died in Germany.
I think it is the policy of the BNP to protest all actions of the AL, right or wrong, and put blame and the ball in their court. We hope that BNP is not going to the court to establish their right to practise democracy in the restricted area.
The BNP seemed to be in deep trouble in reorganizing the party because of total policy disarray. Our advice to the BNP SG would be to allow the cantonment authorities exercise their right to security arrangement they consider appropriate for a political leader and her family living in the most restricted zone and should not drag the cantonment into their political survival strategy.
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