Utter Insult To The Sovereign

With shoddy road construction and maintenance, and wholesale encroachment on almost all the wetlands in and around the capital, in a day and a half's rain almost the entire city went under water. What would the "elected" representatives of the residents, or the civil servants, whose job is to serve the people of this republic, say to, this woman whose rickshaw tumbled sideways on a pothole under water near Shantinagar intersection, Star

kid who met the same fate at the same place just a few minutes later. Photo: Star

This kid in nearby Fakirapool who was being forced to wade through knee-deep water mixed with sewage and floating garbage. Photo: Star

The residents of Kutubkhali of Jatrabari where water even intruded into homes yesterday. Photo: Star

the passengers, vehicle drivers, and their owners who use the Dhaka-Tangail highway which, due to shoddy paving and lack of maintenance on time, is ridden with potholes and turned worse with the rain? Photo: Star

Well, they seem to have no care, as they were hurriedly giving an eyewash by filling up some of the potholes at Rasulpur of Tangail with nothing but rubbish on Friday. Photo: Star