On 1st August, almost all English dailies reported on last year's audited financial figures of the major political parties. The figures showed that the party in power, AL, naturally has the highest income of tk.10 crore, while the main opposition BNP has the lowest: Tk. 1.79 crore. Surprisingly, Jamaat's income is 6.04 crore! JP also had a good collection of 4.81 crore. Probably many rich persons, who earlier contributed for BNP, have shifted to the party now in power, for obvious reasons!

However, except AL, all other parties showed cash deficits. What puzzles me is, who finances these sizable deficits? If it is commercial banks, then we should know which banks finance these political parties that have no tangible fixed assets against which overdrafts are usually allowed. We should keep away from such banks. Critical voter

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