BNP's 'No' and the nation

They are just echoing the BNP alliance while coming down heavily on AL and its alliance for blockade/agitation that caused scores of people to embrace death and made dent in the wall of the country's economy. But how amazing is it not to ask their conscience about whose were the mischievous scheme of things that fuelled the blockade/seige (or became the root of all evils) ?. The upping of retirement age of the judges by BNP-Jaamat Alliance made the neutrality of the CTG first victim, and that resulted in the demands for reforms of CTG. Then the Election Commission, the ultimate apparatus to hold free and fair election, was manned, without consensus, by those known to BNP-Jaamat as their own men. Moreover, three hundred election officials appointed only from among the JCD/Shibir activists and a voter list with over one crore fake voters delivered by the EC under the aegis of the 4-party alliance government made the reform proposals just heavier. But BNP-Jaamat alliance said 'no' to reforms. And you witnessed how the High Court directive for updating/correcting that list was flouted.

When there was countrywide demand for removal of the CEC and his colleagues the 4-party alliance said 'no' and even threatened the advisers of the CTG not to meddle with the election set-up. The nation witnessed the chronicles of later conspiracies in installing the partisan President also as CA of the CTG and making one of the controversial ECs (after departure of Justice M A Aziz) as the CEC, that finally called for legal battle, again in the face of BNP-Jaamat's 'no'. The uncompromising 'no' finally hamstrung the ruling by the High Court Bench against illegality of the partisan President holding the non-political, neutral post of the CA. BNP appointee Attorney General and former Law Minister resorting to unscrupulous dishonesty prevailed upon the Chief Justice to transmit their 'no' to the bench all at once by ordering postponement of the bench. And that stained the CJ too as partisan. The sanctity of justice nosedived and all hell broke loose on the sacred precincts.

The nation, since these blockade, sits-in and agitation began, had to have so many stunning 'nos' of BNP Alliance only to submit to their will and accept their well crafted set-up, done with utmost finesse, to engineer election results in their favour. And the way the CA Professor Iajuddin is running the whole show gives credence to the allegation that he is there as BNP's 'yes man' to fulfil its agenda. (Hence a new demand of his removal). Was it at all necessary for a government that boastfully claim of having done sweeping development and won the hearts of the people? When they look at the mirror they see in them phantoms of wrong doings; brutalizing of opponents, pervasive corruption, vicious spiral of prices, unabated load-shedding, wholesale nepotism and politicization of the administration, carnages and plundering of public fund which saw many of them rise from paupers to the privileged affluent, blur their own vision.

They are so afraid of their image and of hard times ahead that in answer to a journalist's question about demand of LDP for indictment of the corrupt former Ministers, BNP GS, Mr. Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan spewed his 'no' and told that the CTG in place is for holding the next national election only but nothing else.

The readers and letter writers must not be blind to behold and judge things as they need to be beheld and judged and without any prejudice when it matters national interest, more so when a party's surreptitious but calculated designs and machinations to come to power again through rigged election was/is virtually writ large. To right anybody's wrong, somebody must take the lead. AL is doing that together with like minded other parties even at the cost of human lives.