It is said, “It is easy to earn democracy but hard to maintain it”, also it is said ” A hard earned democracy is often smuthered away by crooked politicians and unruly mobs”. We see both the example happening in Bangladesh. Bangladesh earned its freedom in 1971 after long 9 months of fighting against the ruthless pakistani forces and then saw the freedom taken away by sheer neglect and corrupt practices of Awami League goons and their leaders. Again after long fighting against the military junta of Ershad, the country attained the right type of freedom in 1991 but alas! again the country was misrepresented by some unruly Al and BNP leaders who did nothing to help the country but their pockets. Hence we are in this situation..but only this time the country is on a track that is far better than any time since its independence. The country is destined for an election in Dec 2008 and all hopes are set on this new election.
However we have to be certain that this time, true and rightful candidates get their nomination and get elected. Year after year, we are electing wrong candidates in the parliament who does not care about the rule of law, full of conspirators, authoritarian and betrayer to their fellow citizens not to mention their constitutional obligations. From the press, high court to parliament and universities, everywhere they spread their venom of hatred, abuse of power, misrule and destroyed the basic principals of civilization. The country was treated like a family business and acted upon.
Considering all these heinous acts and other aspects of politics, it is high time that the country takes a slow approach to democracy and elect candidates who can represent the country as a whole and not some party. The country should form a sort of a coalition government with all rightful, honest party candidates and rule for the next five years. If all the party sits together and make up their mind, I am sure they can make a compromise. We can not be ruled by those leaders anymore. Otherwise we will end up with this scenario again after again.
If you look at the biggest democratic countries in the world like America, you will see the country has a democracy that is mostly controlled by rules and regulations. From the get go to campaign finance to processions, the whole country is ruled by laws and regulations. People and the politicians follow the same kind laws and they are accountable to the people. We also want the same.
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First need to get rid of this type of partial or pocket writing
Your writing is not neutral. Please stop this type of hypocrisy first and then suggest others. If Ershad was a military junta, so was Ziaur Rahman? In a war wrecked country a military general trusted by the ruling government was involved in all the conspiracy against the ruling Mujib government as well as killing the head of the government and father of the nation, as we now know. All Zia-gong and Jasod were pulling the country backward to defame the ruling government and drag them down. If we look very carefully, it becomes clear that Zia and his creation of BNP based on lie and deceit is mainly responsible for all this problems. Result of the Referendum of Zia was a complete lie, vote rigging using nation's proud armed forces to protect him, he made the politics difficult and politicians as prostitutes. These continued by Ershad. Never stopped even under Khaleda, because BNP was created like that by Zia. Example, the February, 96 election which was again a Zia referendum style election. In some constituencies, winning by more than total number of votes in the constituencies. They never accepted or followed democratic path in the country as they were not created based on democratic value. From 1975 to 1996 the country was more or less ruled/ governed by dictatorial forces. Most of the organizational heads were from them. Where did you get politicians to run them? Now, you are blaming democracy. Where was your democracy from 1975 to 1990. How can you blame politicians for all the problems?
What happened in 2006? Again the the same deceit from BNP. They won't allow democracy in the country. At least people could vote against AL in 2001 as they allowed democracy to work.