Everyone except politicians in Bangladesh believes in democracy
I refer to the above quotation from a letter written by a gentleman from Dhaka on 12 November 2003 under the heading, "is democracy facing a danger?" I lived in UK for more than two decades which is the birth place of modern democracy. I have learnt the real values of democracy and seen how the political parties over there respect and follow the true principles of democracy. I agree fully with the gentleman that a democratically elected government can only be brought down by democratic and constitutional means. In a democracy everyone has the right to express grievances by peaceful means of protest, procession and strike etc and use the final power of vote to elect or unseat a political party from the government. The prescription of movement given by AL with the ultimate intention to unseat the democratically elected BNP government before its term is completed is undemocratic, unconstitutional and harmful for our future of democracy. This will create a dangerous precedent for others to follow when their time will come and this vicious scenario will continue for foreseeable future.
Many years ago when I was in UK the Conservative party was in the government and the Labour party was in opposition, the leader of the British trade union council urged its member to start a movement to unseat the Conservative government from power. Though the TUC is Labour party's tradition but all the leaders of the Labour party immediately condemned the call for this movement by TUC and distanced themselves from the movement.
To undermine each other did not the AL and BNP have already damaged enough the economy and democracy of our nation? They have created enough monsters of Frankenstein from which they themselves will not be immune and innocent masses will suffer enormously again.
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