AL or BNP, does not matter

The ability of the unscrupulous in Bangladesh to continually invent clever and ingenious ways of graft and corruption seems limitless. No doubt some people have made millions from the recent Cricket World Cup. The law and order situation is continuously declining. We all know our children are in line to be mugged on their way to or from school. It's just a matter of time. The muggers are just too busy mugging other children for the time being and ours have to be patient and wait in line for their turn! Sir Frank Peters exposed this shameful, outrageous scandal to the nation when his teenage family friend Aaquib Tanveer was mugged at gunpoint on his way to school. Another had been mugged seven times! The crimes went unrecorded, he wrote, because cops demand "buksheesh" to act. The home minister has the audacity to claim crimes have decreased! That is as preposterous as saying the length of criminal lines are now much shorter as we have moved the criminals closer together! As Professor Musa Bapery from Chittagong stated this week in the Financial Express, it does not really matter to the ordinary folks if Awami League or BNP is in power. They and their cronies are the only real beneficiaries. The only real change a new government brings is "hope". And we hope it will not be any worse than the last one in power. Forty years of mismanagement and pathetic excuses are about enough anyone can take. If I were a political party leader, I would start getting serious now, about performing my work in a proper manner and make the changes that would benefit Bangladesh, rather than wait for the powerful change like that sweeping the Middle East to explode and overwhelm, as will happen otherwise. Enough is enough. Dr. Mamun Haque, PhD. Gazipur E-mail : dr.mamun.haque@dr.com