Party fund raising

Saif Tinku, On e-mail
Report in newspaper on December 08, 2006 revealed Bangladesh Economic Society's General Secretary Dr. Abul Barakat's statement that 20 thousand crore taka will be spend in the forthcoming general election in Bangladesh. In this regard I have a small analysis of a relevant report in newspaper on October 16, 2006.

The former said “More than 3,500 Iowa Democrats paid $100 each to attend the fund-raising banquet that kicked off with Clinton 's speech. About 50 people paid $10,000 per couple to attend a private reception with Clinton beforehand.” It is the scenario of a single state of the US and in the fund raising inauguration day.

We are now a Nobel Prize wining nation. Can't we compare between political fund rising in the US and Bangladesh ? I think, yes, because Dr. Yunus' micro-credit model has been successfully used in the US for last two decades (and later many other countries of the globe).

Even before the partition of the sub-continent, the then major political party, Muslim League raised its fund substantially by taking 'two anaa's from its tens of thousands of workers (Abul Hisam My Life and Pre-Partition Politics of Undivided Bengal, Page 56, Bengali version).

After the liberation of Bangladesh , all the seated government parties have cried that opposition parties have been responsible for huge damages and losses of properties in the country. These losses must have to be quantified for each regime. Same thing has to be done with identical importance for quantifying how much public money has unlawfully gone into pockets of government parties' leaders including ministers and MPs.