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Political schism obstacle to dev

Speakers tell BBC Sanglap

A Correspondent, car s Bazar
The two main political parties are tarnishing the country's image abroad and die political schism has been creating an obstacle to the country's economic development.
Mahfuzul Karim from Gazipur said this at a BBC Sanglap (dialogue) held at Cox's Bazar sea beach yesterday.
Litterateur Biswajit Sen said the government comes to power securing people's votes as well as mandate. But conflict between the government and the opposition makes parliament ineffective.
The opposition party boycotts the parliament on different excuses while the treasury’ bench members also remain absent from the House. As a result, democ-
racy is not practised properly, he added.
The BBC Sanglap on the Image of Bangladesh' started at 4:45 in die after afternoon with the participation of 200 people of different professions from across the country.
Mithila Farzana conducted the programme where young IT entrepreneur Intekhab Mahmud, Bangladesh Brand Forum Secretary Shariful Islam, dance exponent Munmun Ahmed and band singer Shafin Ahmed were the panellists.
An audience of the dialogue Abdullah Al Mamun said though diere arc deep cleavages among the political parties, the countrymen are united.
The government and the opposition should have unanimity about fulfilling the aspirations of the people, he added.
Intekhab said die ruling parly alone should not be blamed for political divisions, adding diat the people and the media have a role to play in tills connection.
Actually, people want a unity. If a party does good work, another party should laud it, said Munmun.
Naimul Haq Chowdhury said tourism capital-famed Cox's Bazar should be built up in a planned way.
Md Abrar Hossain said the country's culture was threatened by the western culture. The intrusion of foreign culture is a threat to our national cultural identity.
"Our mother tongue Bangia needs to be spread across the world through different music and culture which will enhance the country’s image," said Shafin.