Charter for change!

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On 12th December 2008, Awami League leaders declared election manifesto and electoral pledges by announcing Charter for Change. On the following day i.e. 13th December 2008, all the newspapers carried out special news features about AL's declaration of new vision and mission. It is hoped that the honourable editor and readers of The Daily Star can recollect it. We, the general people, were very optimistic about the future golden days to come. We thought that the evil things of the past would disappear and new era in our life would come if AL was voted to power. There would be no lie, no conspiracy, no false statement, no hypocrisy, no vandalism, no session jam in the educational institutions, no extortion by the political leaders and activists and so on. We were dreaming that the prices of all essential commodities would be within the reach of common people. In brief, the past with bad things would be replaced with many good things for us.
But now when AL is in power, all commodities are sold at an increased rate, law and order situation has deteriorated drastically, and mass arrest of innocent people by police has become very common. The most hated incidence is the ministers' and other responsible dignitaries' advance statements about the cases that are sub judice. Charter for Change indeed!