For the last few days I was just contemplating to express my feelings as a general citizen about what happened to the Pabna DC who is now facing departmental action for violating the service rules by publicly expressing his helplessness and asking justice from the locals.
A cabinet division official even said that the concerned DC failed to discharge his duties with courage and in compliance with the service rules. We feel that the said DC invited his misfortune by demonstrating enough courage in not bending to the unjustified demands of the local political power, more specifically, the ruling party adherents.
As expressed by many, the Pabna episode will go a long way in damaging the relationship between the ruling party and the administration, a prerequisite for proper implementation of government policies and development ventures. Before the Pabna chapter could come to a close, another incident occurred in Natore where the Boraigram upazilla chairman was killed by his political rivals while he was leading a peaceful procession. Thanks to the media which made it possible for the public to see how mercilessly a man was beaten to death in broad daylight, reportedly, before the eyes of the law enforcing agencies.
The upazilla chairman is supposed to be a distinguished person in his own upazilla. But in this instance we saw none even from his own party come to his rescue, and his profusely bleeding body was lying on the street for an hour until his wife came to take him to the hospital only to find that she had lost her husband forever.
No one can say whether the killers, who can be easily identified from the video footage, will be caught and punished. But the failure of the government to do justice would open the door wide for the criminals to commit such horrible crimes, which, although may appear to be in favour of the ruling party, might eventually act as a boomerang for them.