Comments on news analysis

“BNP: a party for the supremo,” published on September 1, 2014

Roni Rahman
With regard to January 5 elections, BNP's failure to make its activists active at field level and inspire people to generate mass movement against the one-party-run election is mostly due to its organisational incompetence and detachment from greater civil society. It's not that BNP did not have popular support. They just did not have the framework needed to materialise something into action. Ultimately, it is not so much of defeat for BNP, it is rather a defeat for democracy in the country. The country as a whole suffers when there is no viable opposition to the government's harmful actions such as building Rampal power plant, Padma bridge corruption, gagging the media and freedom of speech etc. An unaccountable and omnipotent government can never be good for the country.

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“Fakhrul sued for calling AL 'killer party'” (September 2, 2014)

Mahmud Hassan
It's a shame that the leaders of our country used this term 'killer'. The PM called Zia family killers and threatened to throw them out of the country. Two days later, the BNP leader returned the courtesy by calling PM a killer. There should be a sense of decency.

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“4 secys guilty” (September 3, 2014)

Sayed Rahman
Such incident is tarnishing the image of our country.

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“'Tortured by BSF', man dies in Satkhira” (September 1, 2014)

Abdur Rahman
How long will the Bangladeshis be tortured and killed by the BSF? Is our government blind? What is the result of so many meetings?