Derogatory observation

I was shocked to read the observation of one of your writers Mr. S I Zaman (March 11, 2008) while he was taking a swipe at the two main political parties. “And you brag of being the main party, which has the support of 99% of the electorate! But, whose 90% (a conservative estimate) consists mostly of rural based uneducated farmers who have no notion of democracy.” To, probably, Mr. Zaman's sheer disappointment, these are 'farmers and chashis' whose children joined our great war of liberation and created our nation.