Bourgeois democracy

By S.M. Khalid Chowdhury On e-mail
13 August 2005, 18:00 PM
The bourgeois democracy has taken a new form in Bangladesh and a handful of people is amassing huge wealth while the rest are starving. This phenomenon has given rise to extremism of all forms and the Parliament has become a debating chamber only.

It has become a tradition for the Opposition to boycott the Parliament. But the boycotting M.Ps draw their allowances borne by the people whom they are supposed to represent; but they negate the practice of parliamentary democracy and deliberately fail to ventilate their views in the national forum. Instead, they pass their time in the secretariat lobbying for business while the nation faces uncertainty.

This tnd has led to the emergence of Maoism and religious radicals. In Britain, discrimination has led to emergence of extremist elements, and if the British society had remained integrated, this would not have taken place in U.K. As is happening in neighboring Nepal, the Maoist movement has taken their grip and the unemployed youth are filling the rank and file of the Maoist movement. It is high time that our society took cognizance of this trend. Or else, there is every possibility of moving towards complete destruction of our social fabric. This is definitely a conspiracy to harm the nation so that we do not survive as a sovereign and independent country.