Enact "clean" laws!

The Daily Star-Prothom Alo-CDP-sponsored civil society initiative for accountable development and clean candidate movement for the 2007 election appears to be a utopian and unrealistic idea of a group of dreamy people.

However, there is no dispute over the essentiality of freeing the country's politics from the clutches of corrupt and inept persons. The movement of the civil society would face snags in a number of issues viz: definition of clean candidates, identification of clean candidates, identification of "unclean" candidates, sharp polarisation in the society and the major two political divides, controversial roles of some of the organisers, and practicability of launching such a campaign.

The society and politics of Bangladesh have become so polluted that it's very difficult to find a "clean" worldly person in the real sense. Can anyone find out 100 persons who did not do any harm to others in his lifetime, who did not trample the rights of others, who did not exploit others, who did not violate laws and undertake undue facility, and so on?

I can definitely say that it's quite impossible. We, the members of the so-called middle or educated class, are the most opportunist section in the society and compromising in nature. Then would we let the current unholy practice go unabated? Of course not.

As I mentioned at the beginning, I again want to say that only rules and regulations, and their strict enforcement, can deter human being -- whether he/she is from Bangladesh or elsewhere in the world -- from harming others. Only strict application of laws can prevent a person from turning "unclean" or dishonest.

So, let us start a movement to force the authorities to enact clean laws and their proper enforcement to bound the people to become honest, who are not naturally so.