Thoughts of new voters

It is well known that an influential number of new voters, especially teen-agers have registered themselves to vote in the next poll. These youngsters posses some brand new ideas and outlooks about our nation, election process and eligible candidates which may vary from the old voters. This is the generation, who did not observe the liberation war nor did they witness BAKSAL. The information about these historical incidents may seem hazy to them as there are lots of controversies in the history and text-books. Change of government changes the history, this is the common trend in our country for a long time. Being a 18-year-old voter, who will vote in this election for the first time in life in 2007, I am very much concerned about the whole thing and have tried to have thoughts from my fellow age-mates.

What I found after talking with hundreds of new voters is that, this new generation won't work as the vote bank for any side. They are a bit confused about what happened in the past and that is why they will vote for those who tried to make the country a prosperous one. Although, most of the new voters did not watch the liberation war, they have meticulously scrutinised the period 1995-2006 when both the BNP and the Awami League came up as the ruling party. What the new voters think is that none of the major political parties became successful to rule the country in proper way which could lead the country to the path of welfare and prosperity.

We are looking forward to some positive changes in politics.