Surely a competent and honest govt would have achieved greater development
Editorial Desk :
If this government can tell proudly of economic development as a great success and, assuming that its claim is true, then it has to be also admitted that under a competent, honest and less wasteful government, the country would have progressed much faster.
No democratic government would have felt the necessity of wasting huge amount of public money in image building and enjoying lavish lifestyle. No expense is considered too high by the government for distorting the political history to justify where we are now: the people have no rights and the government has all the power.
There is no denying the fact that our people all along struggled to enjoy the basic rights as protected under democracy. The people did not seek a piece of land just for its ownership. It makes no sense that the country will be independent without ensuring freedom to have their basic rights guaranteed.
The role model of development is for the communist leadership to justify political slavery for others. In the name of economic development, the people are deprived of the rights and governed imperially.
Economic development that has been achieved in the country is mostly the contribution of the private sector. The entrepreneurship means competition and risk taking. The command economy is not what is needed for economy to grow in a free country. Here the government creates conducive environment for private investment. Ukraine is a horrendous example of how easy it is for Russia to go for aggression and kill people day after day only to satisfy the imperial ego.
In a free county failure to uphold the people’s rights is considered thorough incompetence of the government. Protecting the people’s rights would have meant just economic development and not for the benefit of the favoured few. Undertaking mega projects are shown as glittering success for the government which all the
while deprives the people of their political rights such as freedom of speech and protection of law under an independent judiciary.
The claim of economic development is now loudly made, but to whom this development has come that is the question.
In Pakistan Awami League was the largest democratic party but in Bangladesh, it has become a party for destroying democracy. At one point of time the government assumed absolute power through which, to the surprise of all, it could sack the judges of the Supreme Court.
The people of Bangladesh will not barter away their rights for mega projects. Awami League should try to understand the price it has paid for changing its politics at the prodding of others? The fact that the party is not ready to face the people in a free election speaks not of its success.
