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TO THE EDITOR
Was that cricket?
A staff correspondent's write up, published in the 'sports pages' of a local English daily on 11th. September, about Shahriar Nafees' crude behaviour in India, was 'just not cricket'! He must realise that cricket is fundamentally a gentleman's game, played by well behaved and sober persons, and such ugly demonstration of ill behaviour just can not be allowed on the cricket field, despite any provocation.
It is indeed a sad and serious matter, and reflects adversely on our national character, and that too outside the country. As a dedicated admirer of the game, his rude and crude behaviour just can not be ignored. One person cannot tarnish our image by his rowdy and ugly acts. In all seriousness, I feel he should be banned from playing cricket, to set an example, so that such ill and crude behaviour is nipped in the bud once and for all.
Cricket Enthusiast
EC must monitor RPO strictly
The Representation of the People Order, 1972 (RPO) is the core electoral legal framework of Bangladesh. Some new provisions were made during the time of the last caretaker government in view of modernising the RPO, such as, bringing transparency in selection of candidates by the political parties. Later, the law was passed in the parliament in 2009 with amendment.
However, we hoped that new RPO provisions would ensure intra-party democracy but the way of nomination of Simin Hossain Rimi for Gazipur-4 constituency recently dismayed us. Awami League did not listen to any suggestions regarding this nomination from the grassroots level committees and it was clear that the decision was taken by the party high-ups.
The revised law states that a political party has "to finalise nomination of candidate by central parliamentary board of the party from the panels prepared by the members of the ward, union, thana, upazila or district committee... of constituency concerned.”
An article by Md. Abdul Alim entitled “Analysis of RPO: Does the law ensure governance in candidate selection?” published recently in this daily pointed at many aspects and the authorities concerned should consider his opinions.
In this context, I would like to mention another good new RPO provision that says a person is disqualified (not applicable for independent candidate) for election if he/she has not been a member of a registered party for three years.
We hope political parties would be sincere to abide by the RPO provisions and the Election Commission (EC) would be vigilant against any loopholes created with an ulterior motive by the parties.
MobarakAli
RKMission Road
Gopibagh, Dhaka
Ban Indian TV channels
The conscious people of the country have been demanding imposing a ban on the foreign channels, especially Indian TV channels in Bangladesh for a long time. These channels have bad impacts on our culture and values. There are some programmes in these channels that are completely destroying our tradition and faith. Mainly the young people are being influenced by those programmes. Many Bangladeshi youths speak Hindi among themselves nowadays. Moreover, both young and old women are addicted to the Hindi serials. We urge the government to ban these harmful Indian TV channels for our own good.
Mohammad Jashim Uddin
Rupnagar
Integrity of poor mosque caretaker
Recently I lost my wallet twice within two months. After searching many places, I went to the mosque where I offer my prayers and asked the poor caretaker whether he found any money bag. He smiled and said yes. Both the times he returned my wallet. I offered him money to buy something for his children but he refused to take the money.
These two incidents raised some questions in my mind: who are actually at peace? People who earn large amount of money without thinking whether it is legal or illegal, or people who are happy with whatever meagre amount they earn honestly? People who use latest model cars (bought with illegal money) to go to office or people who go to office by bus and are satisfied? People whose sons and daughters dislike them for earning money illegally or people whose sons and daughters respect them though they are not financially well off but honest?
According to my personal experience, we feel very happy to say that our late father was an honest man although my mother had very hard times running our family.
I am not pointing at the politicians only. People of almost every profession are being misguided by their greed. However, I am hopeful that things will change by the leadership of an honest government. Let us try to bring change and we must remember that "every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." Dr. M. Mahboob Hossain
Woes of National University students
National University is the largest centre of higher education in the country where more than two hundred thousand students are getting higher education. But session jam is one of the worst problems the students of NU are facing. Moreover, not holding the year final exams regularly, delay in publishing results, not having enough classrooms, lack of teachers, etc., are the obstacles in the way to ensure quality education. The national university students enter the job market two or three years later, compared to other public university students who are of the same batch. Seeing the situation of the national university it seems that there are no authorities to look after it. I, on behalf of the unfortunate students, urge the government to take necessary steps to solve these problems.
Badsha Solaiman
Microbiology Program BRAC University
Zahurul Haq Hall University of Dhaka