The New Nation - Internet Edition

Md. Masum Billah

The country sees dialogues going on between the political parties and the interim government after the CA's address to the nation it also witnesses the reluctance of big parties to join the said dialogue. The parties retorted that the long awaited address of the CA to the nation has baffled them though they expected the address would satisfy their demands to get the country rid of the crisis it undergoes now. The government has lifted the emergency on some conditions and in a limited scale which has not saturated the demands of the political parties. They think democracy means chanting slogans at the top of mob's voice. It means blocking all the already jam-packed roads hour after hour to listen to their slogans. Democracy means exercising public anger through breaking the cars and panes of houses at the sweet will of the unruly mob. Democracy means exercise force and coerces the government or opposition to do whatever they like. Actually the wrong exercise of democracy has brought the untold sufferings and miseries to the common mass and irreparable loss to this impoverished nation.

The lifting of emergency in a limited scale and exercising political power, holding meetings and other activities of the party is not supposed to create any harm to exercise democratic rights of the people. They can utilize their agenda and fulfill promises to the nation. In order to do that they need not block the street causing serious and unbearable traffic congestion which has already panicked the nation and the nation is paying heavy loss everyday.

Politics and going to jail and arrest go together. Many great leaders of the world have spent the green and significant part of their lives in jail. Nelson Mandela who spent twenty seven years in jail, the most vital part of this life was spent in the jail. This is why Nelson Mandela is Nelson Mandela. He could get out of this ordeal by contracting or forgetting his ideals. I don't want to say that the leaders of the independent nations must be in the jails. I want to say that the political leaders perform great responsibilities, so their mistakes are also gigantic. This is a part of human nature. No human is perfect. Everybody is subject to mistakes and faults but we don't want to obey this truth. Rather we want to say and express that our leaders are either angels or almost like angels. Of course, this is part of democratic culture where reasons get little importance than emotion. Emotion reigns supreme in the way of democracy. Most probably this is why Socrates termed democracy as 'the politics of the mad and uneducated'. Indirectly we want to mean and say our leaders cannot do any fault or crime. They don't deserve to get arrested. When arrested, they must be freed without any condition. If not freed we will demonstrate and force the government to free them through mass upsurge or mass demonstration. It means we don't want to obey any law of the country. We are the law makers. So law will follow us. What we do is law. Actually it should not or cannot be the way.

The world wide food crisis has seriously jerked this nation. The poor are undergoing untold sufferings and ordeals. I visualize the scene, what would happen if there were political government in the country during this juncture of the nation. Had there not been emergency in the country serious chaos, confusion and anarchy would grip the nation. several countries have to impose Martial Law to quell peoples' unrest and anarchy originated from food crisis and sky rocketing prices of commodities. our country would see the same situation because it was far beyond the control of any political party to quell serious public unrest emanating from food crisis. Hunger does not know or follow any law.

This hunger would invite the situation which could go beyond the controlling capacity of any political movement Our political leaders don't have such kind of girt to control and soothe it. Rather the country would witness serious chaos as it unfolded as beyond the solution in the normal course by the government.

The opposition would take the full advantage of their weakness and incite all other parties and the citizens to create serous chaos in the country. The country has been saved at least from that situation.

According to the address of the CA the government has started dialogue with the political parties. The small parties have started responding to the call of the government but the big parties show reluctance to participate in the said dialogue with the plea that their demands must be fulfilled first. Some of them also threaten to incite public unrest and mass movement.

The political thinkers visualize that the situation may go worse even than the present one if the big political parties don; t respond positively to the government invitation.

it is not an unknown fact that our leaders resorted to all sorts indiscipline in the society. They took all the people of the country hostage and used to do whatever they liked. But now the situation has gone changed which we must accept. The big political parties still threat to start demonstration in the country means creating chaos and indiscipline.

They don't want to understand that the people of this country have become fed up with this situation. They don't want to see and want to listen to such kind of chaotic situation. Big parties' irresponsible and undemocratic behavour have given rise to this situation. Still they tend to farther to make the situation worse.

For the restoration of fruitful democracy participation of the political parties in the dialogue is a must. Through the dialogue the must build up a code of conduct which must be followed by all parties. The culture must be developed to tilt the nation towards development and the language of the movement and political demands must be changed.

Hartal, strike, slogan in the crowed streets, burning cars must be stopped once and for all. No destructive work will be allowed to do further whatever happens the langue of the protest must not be hartal or any programme which invite public sufferings.

This poverty stricken nation wants to go ahead and so calls for free movement and free passport. Nobody and no party has any right to give destructive political agenda national to deter development process. We have not yet ensured electricity for the everyday activities of the country. What we have done for so long years. Time has come ask us questions like this, not to give new destructive and chaotic agenda to further destabilize the national economy. Rather we should try to evolve something better to lead the country towards a meaningful democracy through the dialogues.