No Election Before Cleaning UP Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury

No Election Before Cleaning UP

Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury

Published on February 13, 2007

What a sigh of relief! At last the country is saved! Who saved it we don�t know and we don�t want to know, because the real savers never blare up like the shameless creatures around us. However, we understand that those who saved us definitely have the some potent to save a country when it was almost at the verge of absolute collapse � because what we the mass people could not do they could do that. We earnestly believe that these persons had some solemn intentions to save the country and its people, and those who did it are honest to themselves and to the commitment of keeping the county�s toiling mass in peace.

However, once they have done it, their responsibility has gone up sky-high. Now they have to do a lot more things for the sake of us, because it seems a golden time is set about in the history of Bangladesh when there are no greedy politicians, no assassins, no power grabbers, no extortionists, no ill-educated or uneducated political sycophants, no Hawa Bhaban, no Shudha Sadhan, no syndicates, no puppet ministers or MPs, no �yes ministers�, no godfathers, no liars, no criminals�

It seems that the new government, which looks like a semi-national one, would only work for organising a free and fair election and for that matter, it is supposed to do certain relevant jobs. But our opinion is that, it should think about the issue of free and fair election much later. In fact, we strongly feel that this government should devise such a permanent foundation for this country so that the tribulations we suffered so long should not revisit us any more time. The horrification and the catastrophe that we observed last three months have been for us, as if, living in a haunted house choked with no light and no air.

Everybody knows why all these happened which need no explanation. In a single sentence: it is the utter belligerence of two shameless dogs fighting to capture one bone (power). For snatching this bone away from the other, both of them resort to whatever suits them � killing, extorting, stealing money, chopping up opponents, stopping production, blocking trades, making poor stave, blowing up pedestrians, setting ablaze national property, burning alive bus-riders, conspiring with foreign countries, and what not. If the roots of these corrupt practices cannot be uprooted, the same scenario will come back again and again even after hundreds of �free and fair elections�, and there will be no escape from the haunted faces of the heinous politicians. So it�s time to totally clean up this cancerous part of our society, so that our dream of liberation war the Sonar Bangla comes true. Please take your time as long as you need for the sake of 140 million helpless people of this country. One year, two years, three years � no matter.

We beg of you to first identify the criminals and corrupts in the guise of godfathers and terrorists and simply annihilate in any suitable manner. Whatever measures you would adopt we have our support for you � please take our words. What we the thousands of people could not do last 35 year, we hope you could do that successfully. No matter who they are � ex-president, ex-prime minister, ex-minister, ex-MP, sons or relatives of these people, strong-holders, godfathers, terrorists, fundamentalist � whoever having any association with gross criminal activities, please just finish them off. Believe it we need peace in this all potential country, but because of these handful of thugs we remain hostage along with our country, year after year. Please bring to book whoever responsible for the utter sufferings we had last three months and the regular ones that the headstrong political parties create for us. Even if it is the caprice of any ill-educated and shameless doctorate having the hold of the highest position of the country, please don�t spare him. Please be informed that many honest top brasses of both Awami League and BNP want what we are praying here. They simply cannot utter their desires because they are within the periphery of a party. But they want us to say all these and we are doing that as their spokesmen. We want a corrupt free democratic, peaceful and righteous country with independent judiciary, independent election commission, independent anti-corruption commission and independent human rights commission. May God save us and save Bangladesh.

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The writer is development worker who writes from Dhaka. He can be reached at [email protected]