National problems going out of focus
Monday, 22 November 2010
LET not the supremos in our political parties be under any illusion about what the people want in whose name they say they do politics or derive their legitimacy and powers. People of the country were unimpressed audiences of a weeping Khaleda Zia and the dramas centred on her eviction from her former Cantonment residence.
But on being asked, people are very likely to say that these things are not at all in their list of priorities. Government appears to have triggered the drama by not waiting for legal procedures to be exhausted and from its over-zealous action to ensure the eviction of the former prime minister.
But surely on the eve of Eid, people’s real priorities were saving them from the stranglehold of ticket black marketers, better enforcement of regulation to ensure less stressed and safe journeys, jam-free travel, better policing to maintain law and order, etc. People would be specially heartened if they came to know convincingly that government had finally completed arrangements leading to substantial increase in energy supplies in the coming new year and also steps towards ensuring good governance in all spheres. Indeed, people voted for them in the last election to achieve these expectations and hardly anything else.
Nadim Haider
Rankin Street, Dhaka
But on being asked, people are very likely to say that these things are not at all in their list of priorities. Government appears to have triggered the drama by not waiting for legal procedures to be exhausted and from its over-zealous action to ensure the eviction of the former prime minister.
But surely on the eve of Eid, people’s real priorities were saving them from the stranglehold of ticket black marketers, better enforcement of regulation to ensure less stressed and safe journeys, jam-free travel, better policing to maintain law and order, etc. People would be specially heartened if they came to know convincingly that government had finally completed arrangements leading to substantial increase in energy supplies in the coming new year and also steps towards ensuring good governance in all spheres. Indeed, people voted for them in the last election to achieve these expectations and hardly anything else.
Nadim Haider
Rankin Street, Dhaka