Elected despots
Mr. Shahjahan Ahmed in his letter written on your commentary titled "when elected leaders act like despots" is self-contradictory. Initially, he agrees with the editor regarding Sheikh Hasina being prevented from seeing injured Mr. Azad. But later he justifies the act with the assumption that she might have used her visit for blaming the BNP. He sees only politics in this humanitarian gesture. Moreover, he questions the premise of the editor's conclusion about Khaleda Zia while he draws his own conclusion on pure assumption as above. He wants us to believe that the PM has no responsibility over these despotic acts which her subordinates are responsible for. Surprisingly, Mr. Shahjahan also wants the editor to blame Sheikh Hasina equally, if not more, perhaps just as a balancing act over her some imagined behaviour in the past.
So, this is really all about the blame game that has of late severely afflicted our national politics. Our whole national psyche is now so much blurred with dirty politics, intolerance and meanness that for narrow political gains, investigations into sensational bomb blasts and murder cases make no progress over years. Who is to blame whom for the slide in law and order?
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