AL returns to JS
I agree with your editorial (July, 14) that Awami League should not have run to the foreigners with written explanation to prove its innocence, as a prelude to its joining the deliberations of the parliament after a couple of years of truancy. The party is answerable to the people, and the latter have indicated its verdict indirectly, based on the party's negative syndrome and obsessions. There is hardly anything outstanding to single out while it was in power.
The misguided, leaderless party was under pressure from several fronts: internal division of opinion, the frustration of the millions of voters, the (powerful) foreign observers, and the obvious conclusion that hartal as a weapon had served its utility value through overuse.
Abhiman politics has no place in the active political rejuvenation of a new vibrating nation. Fight and lose, not bark with tail between the legs.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The future reincarnation of the famished party lies in its new leadership. The old wise leaders served splendidly while the going was good. Perhaps the time has come for a requiem (in the political sense).