"Avoid godfather politics"

By Md Aminul Islam Razib, Hons 3rd Year, Department of law, DU
27 October 2003, 18:00 PM
The main opposition party of Bangladesh, Awami League recently published the list of 101 godfathers of the ruling alliance government in a press conference. This included names of ruling ministers, state ministers, members of parliament, city mayors, ward commissioners or their relatives. The ruling BNP has already rejected and declared it the delirium of a mad man. At present a general notion has been set in the minds of the common people that all the political leaders, irrespective of the political affiliation, are directly or indirectly connected with criminal activities. Politics became synonymous to crime. Political leaders are sponsoring terrorism for retaining their power. In this circumstances, the publication of the godfathers' list of a party bear an exceptional importance.

But the intention of the publication of the list is very much questionable. It seems to be a plot only to attack the opponent. The opposition party itself has hundreds of such godfathers and it has done nothing to uproot those godfathers from the party rather it is sponsoring and using them as tools with a view to seize the power to dethrone the ruling government. When in power, they also sponsored terrorism and godfathers.

So publication of godfathers' list of the opponent party only to create political chaos will not bring any good to the country. In order to get rid of this filthy political terrorism what is most important is to strip all the political parties of terrorism and crime connection. But to what extent are the political parties ready to do their parts? Do they have that little intention?