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TO THE EDITOR
Hazari
Thi news of AL disowning Joynal Haziri Is indeed a welcome devel-opmml. We can only hope he does not find home in another party ooking to enhance its muscle pover.
Let's hope that this is the start of a treid where politicians realise that he short-term benefits of muscle lower is outweighed by the longterm liability of harbouring ciminal elements.
The rexus between criminal elements md politicians must be
broken to overcome the current governance crisis.
Saleh Tan veer
Ohio, USA
Why this discrimination?
I am a substitute teacher financed by PROMOTER GoB-EC project. I am working in a rural secondary school in Bogra district PROMOTE is giving me salary and the MPO teacher Is getting a fellowship worth Tk. 2,000per month.
Now my MPO teacher is coming back to the school and this is my
turn to get the Bachelor of Education degree with fellowship. But from this year PROMOTE is not giving the fellowship, as 1 was told by the PROMOTE office, Ra jshahi. Why will I not get the fellowship this year? { could not even get admitted into the course as so many Rajshahi University students have applied and the number of seats is limited.
I would like to draw (he attention of our education ministry to this matter, so that I can gel the fellowship this year.
HasnaBanu
Bogra
Religious harmony
A group of bigots is trying to spoil religious harmony by attacking the Ahmadiyya community. It is clamouring for declaring them non-Muslims. In a democracy the rights of the majority are granted but the minority must be protected as well. The practices and affairs of people should not be trifled with or interfered in until and unless that hurt other(s). To our consternation, (he fanatics are girding their loins to fish in troubled water.
The government should take a
firm stand against the trouble makers.
Roney
One-mail
RU law department admission
Students on (he merit list as well as first, second and third waiting lists who failed to attend the interview for admission in the first year honours courses under (he 2004-05 academic session at (he department of law and justice were asked to attend the interview on May 3 (TYies- day).
The students of the 4th waiting list were also asked to attend the interview held at the departmental office on the same day.
It seems (he admission process is taking an unusually long time.
Emdadul Haque
Rajshahi University
Appeal to opposition
We arc appearing in the "O" level exams which started yesterday. Our humble request to die opposition parties is: Please do not call any hartal till our exams encklf you call hartal we will get into serious trouble.
Rishad, Anika, Saila and others "O" level candidates, Dhaka
Reform our electoral
system
Former President H.M. Ershad suggested some measures to reform our electoral system. I Ie suggested that seats in the parliament should be allocated on the basis of the percentage of votes obtained by any party. There are both positive and negative sides of this proposal. In the last election the ruling alliance got around 47% of popular votes but
obtained two thirds majority. On the other hand, the AL got around 42% of the votes but received only around 60 parliamentary seats. Under the proportionate system, the seat difference between these two would not have been that big.
I think politicians us well as political scientists should ponder over Ershad's proposal on electoral reform. In Canada, the province of British Columbia is contemplating introduction of the proportionate system to distribute parliament seats. There will be a public referendum on this issue this month.
Rushed Choudhury Winnipeg, Manitoba