Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina said the massive public misery in the last one and a half years has proved that unelected governments cannot bring any good for people.However, the massive public misery in the years preceding that proved that having one of, if not the most, corrupt governments on the face of the earth did them little good, too.
She called for handing over power to elected representatives by holding a free and fair election without any further delay.
Those would be the same elected representatives who're being marched off to jail in herds for amassing wealth at the expense of the Bangla in the street.
Hasina was speaking at a discussion on the 33rd death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15 at a hotel in Virginia State, according to US-based news agency News World. "There is no alternative to holding parliamentary elections; no alternative to democracy to build a happy and prosperous Bangladesh braving the challenges of the 21st century," she said.
That was, from what I've read, Mujib's intent. Instead, he was bumped off in the usual kind of Third World coup d'etat, the people who were on the Pak side in the late festivities weren't punished or expelled and wormed their way into the corridors of power, where they continued acting like Paks, and probably continue taking Pak pay checks.
The former prime minister said the anti-corruption drive has turned into an instrument of depoliticisation.
Tough. With a nation paralyzed between two bitch women who were willing to do most anything, each to keep the other out of power, even a military dictatorship would look good. From what I've seen, what Bangla now has is a lot more and a lot better than I ever expected to see.
The authorities arrested low-profile leaders leaving the bigwigs untouched in a bid to secure some select constituencies in the general election, robbing the anti-corruption drive of its credibility, she alleged.
She's one of the two top-level bigwigs, mind you...
She said the caretaker government searched for honest people by detaining her on charges of dishonesty. "People want to know how many honest people they have so far found", she said adding that people who whitened their black money and those known as usurers are dear to the administration as honest people.