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Tyranny and turmoil

8 October 2006, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Rezaul Karim, Malibagh, Dhaka
Sitting in the dark in a drawing room of my friend's house at Banani DOHS , I was having my iftar, cursing myself and groping for the guilt I might have committed in the past so that God has bestowed upon us the political party now in power. Kazi Khaled Ashraf , in his article "Tyranny", published in your daily on 26 September, has narrated it as "the worst governance in the history of this country". I would like to add " since the British had left this sub-continent." Kazi Khaled Ashraf has further said that the "votes of the majority have endowed us with a government of tyranny and turmoil". I would like to add two more words "inefficiency and corruption".

People in general are now experiencing what is called the last gasp or laboured breathing because of the evil governance of the 4-party alliance during the last five years. Simultaneously, with the corruption nakedly practiced by the top echelons of the society down to the grassroots level workers of the ruling party together with the cunning and ingenuous contrivance in recruiting and posting the goonda elements of the students'

wing of the BNP and Jamaat-Shibir in every sensitive department of the state, the country has been brought to the precipice of a total disaster where the entire nation is now simmering with hatred.

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As Member of Parliament GM Quader has observed in his article "Democratic Election "published in your daily on 25 September, that "it is more or less obvious that this type of government cannot hope for

being re-elected by the people in a free and fair election " and so "all recruitments, transfers, postings, promotions, making of OSDs and putting on forced retirement have been done to have all the party loyalists in civil service and police and also in Election Commission jobs to hold key positions in next election.

Police brutality has crossed all the limits. We all know that Asaduzzaman Noor is a lovable personality. Even the members of the lowest rung of the law enforcing agency treat him on the street with respectful affection and many of them address him as Baker Bhai. Beating him mercilessly on the street is simply alien to their nature. So is the case with the polite politician, Saber Hossain Chowdhury . We all have seen how Barrister Nazmul Huda was simply outplayed and outmanoeuvred by him in a debate recently arranged by BBC. The treatment meted out to these two eminent personalities by the police can only give credence to the widespread conviction that the hyenas of Chhatra Dal and Chhatra Shibir were let loose on the street in the garb of the members of the law enforcing agencies.
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