Intra-party rivalry and people's woes

Sometimes certain human activities defy logic, but dumping garbage on the street by one faction of a political party to foil the programme of another faction of the same party is beyond anybody's comprehension. This loathsome act was triggered by intra-party rivalry between two local stalwarts of Dhaka City Awami League. 

Factional rivalry in the AL and its manifestation in violence in almost every arena have resulted in many deaths and disruption of education and law and order. This phenomenon has been all the more pronounced since the last election that has left the ruling party without an opposition worth the name and its cadres and appendages without a political rival to go after. Consequently, various factions of it are engaged against one another.

However, what is reprehensible is that it is the public which is inflicted the pain and distress as a result, as was also the case this time. Truckloads of trash were dumped on the road which impeded movement of vehicles and pedestrians, but even worse, the filth was stacked in front of a school making life of the students miserable. One wonders how three truckloads of filth could be commandeered by ordinary persons. But added to the discomfort was the clash between the two rival groups that caused injury to many and damaged several vehicles.

The spectacle that was put up is really the ugly face of politics in this country, and made even more so when factions of the same party go at each other's throat on paltry matters. This was literally a dirty job and a classic case of cutting off the nose to spite the face, because whosoever had done it has managed only to sully the image of the party.