Hartal

By Arife Chowdhury, Lalmatia, Dhaka
26 April 2005, 18:00 PM
Recently, Tareq Rahman, the joint secretary general of the BNP, had survived an accident where the wire of a lift in a hotel in Khulna snapped and fell about 11 feet.

I am surprised that no hartal has been called on this issue. I am glad and so is the rest of the country. We cannot afford hartals.

If it were to happen to any opposition leaders, there would have been at least a couple of hartals by now. Opposition leaders would have by now asked for FBI investigation and also would have told the pressmen that it was done intentionally.

I believe the opposition should wait for the tenure of the present government to be over and use their failures to their advantage during the next election, instead of calling hartals and disrupting innocent people's lives.