Elect qualified people for establishing true democracy, urges Dr Kamal

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NARSINGDI, June 24 (UNB): Gonoforum President and eminent lawyer Kamal Hossain has urged the countrymen to elect qualified people as representatives through a fair election for establishing a truly representative democracy in the country.
He made the appeal while exchanging views with the lawyers of the district on the present political situation at the district Bar Association Auditorium today.
"We have to establish a true representative democracy in the country. For this, we have to elect qualified representatives by ensuring a fair election by working unitedly," he mentioned.
A staunch proponent of the current wave of socio-political reforms in the country, he termed the nefarious act of squandering huge money by the politicians during poll campaign as the symptoms of sick politics.
He alleged that all the representatives thus elected later indulged in pervasive corruption to get the money back they spent on electioneering.
Kamal also urged the government to fix a limited amount of money as campaign expenditure for all the political parties to eliminate the mal-culture, as this culture can never bring nation's welfare.
"Country's politics has gone into the grips of the rich and musclemen. These musclemen cannot accept the people as the source of all power," he told the audience and urged the people to thwart this malpractice to institutionalise the hard-earned democratic ideology.
In this connection, he underscored the need for ensuring freedom of the judiciary, democratic ideology and a fair election for bringing "power back to the people from the clutches of the evil force".
Kamal further urged the lawyers to play an effective role in mobilising people for winning the crusade, now going on in the interim period.
"Healthy politics will be re-established in the country if honest and intelligent persons can be brought again to lead," he expressed the hope.
Chaired by district Bar Association President Shahjahan Mia, the programme was also addressed, among others, by Gonoforum presidium member Altaf Hossain, Badruddoza Jillu, Jaglul Haidar and Babu Ranjit Kumar Saha.