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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Holding voter-less polls constitutional?
It is strange and ridiculous that 153 out of 300 members of the parliament were elected without votes and the rest 147 members were declared elected with only 10% vote cast (EC claims it to be 40%). And these so called ministers including the PM are shamelessly continuing their work saying that doing this is a constitutional necessity. Does our constitution say that the ruling party should hold general election without people's participation and take office without slightest hesitation? It is strange, because there is no opposition in the house except for a few members who are loyal to the government. Noted personalities including civil society members are saying that it is legal but not legitimate.
Some shameless ministers keep saying that they will hold office for 5 years. Is it so? Has Bangladesh failed totally?
Md. Shahjahan Mia
Developmen t Professional
Only AL can ensure peace
No matter what agenda the present government is trying to implement, it is imperative that peace returns in the country first. This is indispensable for development. If Jamaat is not being banned, then the government should just sit with them with a positive mindset and settle the issues once and for all. Hostility of any kind would breed only hostility. For obvious reasons, only Awami League can ensure peace in the country.
Iqbal Ali Khan
Director
Naseem Group, Dhaka
It's a nightmare we are in!
I am feeling very curious about the mental state of the members of the newly formed government. People do not mean anything to them; so ignoring their demand, the AL government went along with the election saying it is constitutional requirement and that the 11th parliamentary election will be held soon. But now they are saying that they will finish the 5-yearterm.
Bangladesh seems to be an unknown place to me. Every day news of horrible and unjust acts reach us, dead bodies are being recovered regularly and destructive activities are taking place any time and anywhere. We never thought the situation in our beloved country would become so nightmarish.
Nur Jahan Chittagong
What is a parliament?
In a speech to the electors of Bristol, on 3rd November 1774, the eloquent British statesman Edmund Burke defines what a parliament ought to be: "Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a 'deliberative' assembly of 'one' nation, with 'one' interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament."
Our politicians who froth at their mouth over democracy should better take note of above quotation from Edmund Burke on parliament.
Ishtiaq Rahman
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Comments on news analysis, "Dangerous insinuation, distortion of facts," published on January 21, 2014
Sorwar
The writer got it all wrong; the point is the forces of the people can not get so brutal against its own people. So people suspect from the events at Motijheel that there must be outsiders who are leading these operations. I think a large part of the people believe this. You can just hold a poll to know the opinion of the people...
Md. Ismail Hussain
People suspect something else too. How could the Jamaat-Shibir so brutally burn and bomb its own people? How could the Hefazatis burn holy books, destroy rail communication, fell trees, etc? A poll might tell you otherwise.
S.M. Iftekhar Ahmed
When will these politicians learn that people are not so less informed as they used to be and that they are more aware than these so-called pro-people politicians?
SM
Any proof of these unknown faces?
Mortuza Huq
Khaleda Zia represents the sentiments of the democracy loving citizens of Bangladesh. She has nothing to lose. She should call on Sheikh Hasina asking her to sit for a dialogue in front of the media in order to resolve the current crisis of the country.
Saint
It is one-sided writing.