CD-politics!

The central idea was well brought out by the commentary of a retired general (DS, July 13). Party manifestos have to be topical, and change with the mood and mode of the electorate. Autocracy in the name of democracy is a sham, as are the preceding general elections, decade after decade, generation after generation. How it feels, as a voter, to be a virtual political hostage in one's own country? The leaders seem to be blissfully unaware of the time-bomb ticking away. De-fuse it.

It is not possible to hoodwink 60 million voters, when four million Bangladeshis worked abroad in the last 29 years, and last year remitted about four billion dollars, (according to the 494-page report released by INO; DS report July 13). Our politics needs BNR, not BMRE!

The autocratic pattern of political culture is not changing decade after decade. What are the causes for this nasty continuity; when, paradoxically enough, the two main political parties are so hostile to each other for 15 years? Secret: the selfish interests are common; and this philosophy is against public interest. Wait for the turn of the tide, long overdue. Time for a political tsunami, speaking as an 'honest' voter! The political burqa has to be removed, to reveal the satanic verses in the 'kalb' (soul) inside.

Metropolis Dhaka is looting the divisions and districts, and sucking them dry. Suckers are knockers. It is 'Centralised Democracy', or 'CD politics'! Time to change over to rewritable compact disc (CD). Some say computerisation of politics is not possible, because it is the art of the improbable!