An observation in bad taste

SADLY have we observed ruling party leaders of high position occasionally indulging in spewing out comments and innuendoes against their political opponents absolutely unmindful of the insidious effect these can have on the public mind. We are astounded by the horrific remarks of deputy leader of parliament and member, AL presidium Begum Sajeda Chowdhury on opposition leader and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for her working beyond 9pm at her party's Gulshan office and returning home at 3am, as reported in a prominent Bangla daily. This, according to Sajeda Chowdhury, in a twisted perception, raises a question as to what she does during those hours! Such personalised finger-pointing is not only invasive of privacy but also extremely slanderous and in bad taste. A mischievous innuendo, it's absolutely detestable and repugnant to civility and normal sensibilities. This is patently beneath the dignity of her position as deputy leader of parliament and presidium member of AL as well as mindlessly uncalibrated as far as the position of the person that the vitriol was targetted at goes -- she happens to be the supreme leader of the opposition. In fact, the AL leader's resort to such imputation could only be self-demeaning.
At the same time, LGRD minister and general secretary of the ruling party Syed Ashraful Islam also made some derogatory remarks about certain newly elected members of BNP committees which had better not been made as these were uncalled for.
As if there was no other issue to occupy the AL leaders' minds on an occasion like the birth anniversary celebration of the Chikitshak Parishad, something politically saucy, the exact opposite of political savvy, had to be uttered.
While on the subject may we recall what was said by Prime Minister of the opposition leader's absence in a poverty conference she was invited to but changed her mind on after an initial indication she would come: 'she would have come had it been a conference on loot and plunder'.
We are talking of the vicious culture that is often indulged in by both ruling and opposition party members that is neither helpful to the parties themselves nor those who resort to it. Above all, little do they realise that it brings down the image of the country. There is nothing wrong in rivalry between political parties but for that to be reduced to rancorous exchanges and mudslinging can give rise to serious misgivings in the public mind as to whether the people they have elected to high places deserve the dignity of their positions.