Khaleda demands immediate release of Hasina

Motamoth · Guest

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today urged the government to release Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina immediately, provided there is legal scope for dealing with the cases against the AL chief by setting her free.

"It's my perception that it would have been better to complete the prosecution by not arresting Sheikh Hasina and not opposing her bail petition by the government side," she said in a press statement.

"It would have reduced mutual distrust and doubt as well social tensions and political unrest to a great extent," added the immediate-past prime minister in her observation about the predicament of Hasina, also an ex-premier.

Both the leaders today received notices from the Anti-Corruption Commission directing them to report their wealth to the watchdog within a week.

Khaleda noted that a prolonged state of emergency could not bring good to the nation. "We will have to move forward towards a sustainable democracy by ensuring stability at this critical juncture of the nation."

"It is necessary to establish national consensus and understanding to that end by shunning malice and divisions. Today I feel that opportunity and prospect have been created to a great extent. To achieve this, all will have to show wisdom, foresight and tolerance", Khaleda added.

Commenting on the arrest of Hasina and the gestures shown to her on the court premises, the BNP Chairperson, who has also been under restrictions, said she was aggrieved at what she said was the failure of the administration in protecting the prestige of the AL president.
"I am deeply shocked at the way a party chief, the daughter of a national leader, a former prime minister, a senior lady and, above all, a respectable citizen had to land on the court premises in a dishonourable and indecent situation," Khaleda said in her elaborate statement.

She said, "I understand that the feelings of conscientious citizens were hurt and image of the government tarnished at home and abroad. I believe this situation could have been averted if the government had been more alert and cautious."

Source:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khabor/

Guest

Dear All,

We are noticing high drama in Bangladeshi politics. We are being re-introduced to the concept that in Politics there are no last words. Predicament of an
arch rival and fierce opponent can also become a
concern for a politician could not be more brilliantly
elucidated when we hear the words of past Prime
Minister, Khaleda Zia.

It is such a dramatic turn of events that has brought
the fiercest of rivals who could not even see each's
face, let alone debate eye-to-eye taking so much
trouble to highlighting that 'Shaikh Hasina's arrest'
has been unfortunate, especially when considering her
stature in politics.

My questions is, do the law books have two sets of
standards, one for high and mighty who are royalty
and, two, for the people of the streets like myself?
Thank God that only one set exists that says 'if you
are guilty, you must walk the corridors of justice.
There shall not be any impunity.' Sorry, the famous
citizens' clause while dispensing justice could not be
entertained.

To me the leadership in Bangladesh is sitting on a
bubble waiting to burst, mostly because of their
doing, undoing and non-doing ( meaning ineffective
governance and management). Be it Khaleda Zia or
Shaikh Hasina, the alter of Prime Minister had
intoxicating aura for them and they began to speak and
feel as if the public wanted 'this and that.' In
practicality, public like myself, felt isolated and
alienated and began to feel that these people in power
have actually hijacked 'politics and democracy from
the public.' People reflected their views in public
forums and in the media, but they were unperturbed and
their cohorts of imbecilic party men and women had
thought the 'joy ride' will extend till eternity.

It was not so, as sooner or later people had jolted
from their slumber and understood that politics is not
about putting more money in the pockets; politics is
not about continuing a fractious state of despair;
politics is not about 'yes Madam or yes Sir' type of
blind loyalty; politics is not about unceremoniously
calling each other liars and traitors; politics is not
about dictatorial whims of one person or a select few;
politics is not about 'jhalou, porao andolon, etc.'

Politics is about making meaningful, positive changes
in the lives of people. Politics is about putting the
issues of state above all else. Politics is about
believing in a just society and working towards
building the framework for that society to unfold.
Politics is about patience, reasononing and being able
to accept contrary views. Politics is about debate,
discourse, more debate, analysis, decision and
implementation.

Now, the popular demand is for the parties to
re-organize and re-structure its internal
constitutions so that political balance results and
power sharing becoming built-into the constitution of
each party.

The days of Khaleda and Hasina have to stop if
Bangladesh needs to blossom from the clutches of 'old,
antiquated and family lineage based politics.'

We need to find leadership from the new generation.
With all due respect, the people of older generations,
have presented us with chaos, hardship and not a
pleasant Bangladesh. Please take ownership of your
failed responsibilities and at least say to your soul
that 'I have failed and do not want to keep showing my
miserable face time and time again.'

The 'notun Bangladesh' will forgive you, but if you
try to cling onto power without the moral and
intellectual strength then you are setting yourself up
for an uphill battle, while the country drains in
terms of performance.

Finally, 'old wine in new bottle' gets exposed easily;
therefore, the politicians of the past who have
miserably pushed us in grave danger, please do not
insult us - allow the 'mantras of democracy' be
preached by others while you wish the new team a very
good luck because they will need every bit of it with
so much prior devastation being pushed on Bangladesh.

Please excuse me for hurting feelings of some
politicians and elderly citizens.

Ziaur Rahman
IITM

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M. M. Chowdhury · Guest

Excellent write-up Mr.Ziaur Rahman.

Some people might think that I want one party over another. I am not blinded with any party in Bangladesh, but I am blinded with the Bangladesh development party which one can take power in Bangladesh and move forward. I might sound too naive even though we know AWL and BNP are main political parties in Bangladesh and our people only know and support them mostly.

Lets talk about both sides (AWL & BNP). People who support AWL, its my personal view that they are die-hard and some times blinded by the believe that they are GOD to them. On the other hand supporters of BNP are mostly opportunistic and clever. We have 150 million people where more than 80 million people lives less than US$1/day. We have 1% of people who are rich (Politicians, businessman, etc). If we look at Dhaka particularly, it might be tough to understand that Bangladesh is a poor country because of high rise buildings, expensive shopping malls, stores, apartments, etc.

I have been reading of comments in various Blogs for the last 8 months and I feel like that there is lack of compromise among Bangladeshi people, you either with me or your are with enemy. I am assuming that it might take sometimes to change behavior unless we realize what is our end goal: is it power? is it headlines? is it making money? is it reduce poverty? is it creating more jobs? Is it being comparative with other developing countries? is it making self millionaire? is it driving expansive cars? is it wining over others? is it increasing buying power of the people? what is it? --------

We fall into so much in argument after argument about Bangladesh politics that we forget what we want to accomplish. We have to understand that world and its economy is moving forward and nobody/country will wait for us to catch them. We have multiple disadvantage regarding global warming which will cause huge damage in Bangladesh economically and socially in future, are we prepared? We are only depends on Garments industries, if some reasons this sector got hit, what will we do? How will we support our people? There are so much to think and make argument and make policies to move forward, but I do not see this in various blogs. We need to make it balance between political talks and development talks, I do not see that here.

Another items that we need to create is the new generation leaders to run this country. I think we should bring people in politics who has leadership, education and international business experiences to move this country forward. One was telling me other day that how we elect some one who did not born in certain area where he/she is taking MP nomination to be elected. I am telling him that do you think that it is more important that he/she born that particular place to become a MP, don't you think we should look at the overall picture what this guy can bring to the table to move this country forward. Finally, I believe that we as people are the blame for not choosing the right person to lead this country, we either with AWL or BNP and their leaders. We need to move out of this box and look around.

Enough advise I guess, we need some action now.
"Love your country more than any particular person or a party"

Best wishes,
Eng. M. M. Chowdhury, Atlanta, USA
www.changeBangladesh.com
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Mohammad Zakaria · Guest

Process solution lies in participatory democracy organically evolved from below. Such an organic process has the potential of digging a dream where the voice of the majority citizens are heard. power rivalry among civil, military and administrative bureaucracy will further compicate our long accumulated problems.
71 liberated minority citizens in the the administration (civil servants) earlier deprived under Pakistan rule. Same are he cases with military and supporters of political parties coming from the middle class.
Any meaningful reform / change must address the question of the majority citizens partiuclarly 2.2 million women contributing in the single largest export sector garments, livelihood question of 15 million micro finaance borrowers mostly women who stirred rural stagnant economy moving forward, migrant workers bringing 6 billion $ remittance in a situation where WB/IMF provides 1.8 billion external resource mostly consumed by the preveleged minotiy middle class and more importantly the farmers who are feeding 140 million populace. Reform in a situation of fear by the beneficiaries mostly through extra legal ways most probabaly is going to further adding problems rather than contributing to solution.The nation must be courageous enough to get out of this quagmire.

Ziaur Rahman · Guest

Dear Eng. M. M. Chowdhury and all,

Thank you for pointing out that development issues need to take
precedence over political issues. Unfortunately, we cannot function in
Bangladesh without first chatting about politics and then other issues
like development comes into our mind.

I believe we really need to think of the future of Bangladesh not just
from the point of 'building a sustainable democracy' but also from the
point of balancing democracy with economics and growth.

We cannot forget that we have 140 million people and most, as Eng.
Chowdhury and many rightfully mentioned, are simply leading an
inhumane life and are being extorted by the 'rich class of people' in
Bangladesh.

Yes, I call it extortion as these people are subjected to almost slave
labor, while the owners and overloads of these business enterprises
drive the fanciest of cars and wine and dine at the most exotic
restaurants around the world. The gap between the rich and poor has
increased (CPD findings); we, as a nation, are blinded by the dazzle
of beautiful buildings and fancy arcades in Dhaka. Needless to say,
these are lop-sided development at the cost of letting run-away
capitalism to devour human soul forcing reasoning to take a vacation.

All the smart talks of development strategists and the likes of World
Bank and IMF had really not produced magic in turning Bangladesh
prosperous. Every story has two sides like the coin; so the people of
Bangladesh are to be equally blamed for not putting their share of
work efforts for the development and of course, for not being morally
and ethically correct in managing our day-to-day affairs.

We seem to live in an island of dis-connectivity and many do not
understand that Bangladesh is heavily dependent on import economy. We
need to create local infrastructure to close the gap between our
imports and exports, which is heavily biased towards imports,
contributing towards de-valuation of our currency. Some exporters may
gain transient benefits for that but in the long run, Bangladesh will
bleed due to the rising costs of capital machinery imports at
exorbitant local currency costs.

These are part of our development agenda and, as a country, Bangladesh
needs to seriously understand that we let Bangladeshis open businesses
overseas and create networks and exchanges with Bangladesh so that the
GOB can have a basket of currencies in possession, contributing to
strengthening our currency. Development of Bangladesh has to move
beyond exports of Garments, Shrimp, Tea, Jute, etc. We need to export
consulting & IT service, human resource, intellectual capital,
products of art and culture, processed food, etc.

I have sketched a number of development targets and shared some broad
strokes that will help us to situate Bangladesh in a better standing
globally.

Finally, I think we need to use these forums for strategic development
purposes. Example: Business ideas and investment opportunities may
also be included in this forum. The forum members can coordinate some
social business endeavors and also be rewarded financially from
thoughtful investments.

Thank you for your patient reading.

Ziaur Rahman
IITM

mahathir of bd · Guest

I am not a political scientists, rather a bio-scientists. But what i understand with my little knowledge and experience, politics is not a simple matter. It is a complex matter which include everything of human life. Economical issue, development issues, cultural issues,religious issues, even pshycological issues.

Nothing is out of the sphere of politics.

Even sometimes our finace ministers said that we have to set politics aside and give priority economics or developemt issues.

As every single thing is part of politics, can be political issues , idea of seperating some issues from politics does not occur, will not occur.

i thing so. What do the political scientists think?

if there is any political scientist in the group, i would request him to make the matter clear to us whether we can isolate any issues from politics or not.

with regards

parvez_imhk · Guest

What are you exactly trying to say here? No one asked for double
standard. Did anyone?

All what it boils down to is respectable treatment for the national
leaders and military scrollng its hand back from politics.

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