For what change?

In his pleonastic venture I find only psychological change the writer wants the politicians to. Before warping up he writes "political leaders also should start reforming their mindset, and read the minds of the people, so as to avoid being jettisoned. Another sentence he writes "the people of Bangladesh who fought against the overbearing British, the tyrannical Pakistanis, and unjust dictators have shown a fair amount of resilience at the call of the time."

The writer grows pensive reminiscing our past but muffs up to bring forth a moot question which is, this sovereign country today is ruled by no Britons no Pakistanis but by the people of this soil. Spearheading mass movement may be synchronic and diachronic, frantic and/or organised. Whereas in order to grow a democracy mature fostering of political culture, building on values of democracy, political awakening and socialisation as well as an enlightened civil society within must be required.

Where does that structure for fostering a democracy happen to exist in our country? Hardly can people in throes abandon those corrupt politicians in many constituencies since they prefer more corrupt ones. Politics is such an activity which is carried on in a human environment and is thus a product of the historical background, social set-up, physical location and climate etc. Such characteristics shall affect the political activity that takes place in a given area.

Now is psychological change prior to structural chance or structural change first to come about for psychological chance? In sociology, functional school of thought says Man forever with atavistic basic instinct deserves to be controlled by social institutions.

People of this country, not inured themselves to political unrest, want qualitative changes in political structure to be brought about by the next elected govt. on the morrow:

(a) separating judiciary from executive organ for the sake of full-fledged function of democracy and media freedom ;

(b) appointing ombudsman so as to ensure good governance;

(c) making ACC go in full speed to choke the corrupt elements which stunt our GDP growth;

(d) unshackling police from the fists of ruling party letting them act neutral. It can change the feudalistic structure at municipal and village politics;

(e) bringing about land reform to free government (khas) land from the jostles of political coteries at grassroots level;

(f) practicing democracy within political party and no selection but election of woman MPs by direct vote saying no to nepotism;

We do expect next government will address these points.