'Infiltrators' in the ruling party

PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina's warning that wrongdoers, who, she believes, have infiltrated into the Awami League and its front bodies would not be able to get away with their criminal activities. While it is appreciable that she wants to cut the deviant elements to size, we would like to add in the same breath that such warning rings hollow at a time when workers of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) are involved in unlawful activities like toll collection, tender and admission business and so on. They have also been found running in hot pursuit of their fellow members brandishing firearms over sharing of the spoils or establishing sphere of influence as it happened at the Jahangir Nagar University in recent times.
Are all those wrongdoers moles serving the Awami League's enemy camp? As things stand, the term 'infiltrator' bears no significance since, to all appearances, the wrongdoers outnumber the good elements in those front bodies of the party.
The realities on the ground, therefore, fly in the face of her 'belief' that it is the infiltrators who are behind all the misdeeds that are being reported in the media about every other day. Or is it that she finds it more comfortable to resign herself in the world of make-believe, or is it that what she said was nothing, but merely an instance of public posturing!
We think the prime minister does not herself believe that her party people are all angels. On the contrary, the sooner she is ready to face facts the better it is for the party.
For until she is able to come out of her denial mode about the fact that there is a problem in the BCL , the party would hardly gain anything out of it. On the contrary, with such affirmation and reaffirmation in support of the party aficionados from no less a person than the prime minister, it will go only to embolden her ministers and party leaders, especially the home minister, to indulge in the rot to fester.
A final note of caution here. As long as she would be hesitant to act against the recalcitrant elements, her party will have to pay dearly in terms of its credibility loss.