Democracy in deathbed
Democracy perhaps needs more than 15 years to cross the childhood! We saw the birth of a child democracy in Bangladesh, as the then politicians said in 1991 with the end of the autocratic rule of HM Ershad. Now in the year 2005, discussants (are they one of those politicians) found that the child democracy is in deathbed (The Daily Star, 10 February, 2005). Nothing surprising when viewed in light of child mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh! Indeed the child mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh is much higher due to malnutrition and many other reasons. Alas! We failed to provide proper nutrition to keep the child democracy growing. The last sentence of that report was again astonishing: lively (!) discussion on the dying democracy.
We need the right person in the right position everywhere in our society. We need those who know when, what and how to feed or how to serve or where and how to apply the proper medicine to heal the dying child democracy. We may need a change in leadership.
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