Call of Independence
I am writing this in reference to your news article captioned "PM questions Mujib's Independence Call". Thirty-three years have passed since the country gained independence and I am quite certain that over these years the charm and vanity of independence has worn off for many ordinary people in the face of rising poverty, lawlessness and lack of opportunity for leading a decent life . The ordinary, hapless people of Bangladesh no longer care about who declared their independence because they cannot relate to it anymore. How can a nation be truly independent if the identity of the leader(s) is a foregone conclusion? How can a nation be truly independent if the leader of the ruling party is not selected on the basis of vision, leadership and merit but on the basis of family line of succession? We all know who the PM is going to be if either of the two party wins the next or any forthcoming election. Don't we? I really cannot figure out how can anybody think about independence in a country where monarchy reigns in the form of democracy, where the parliament works just to pad the ego of the leader.
It is indeed a shame that our leaders are still fighting over their respective families' contribution to independence, when the very existence of our independence is in question.
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