The image of our politics

Our flow of the bile is terrific, and our super mobile tongues create non- stop records. From where this energy comes from, which cannot be transferred to the development projects and routine operation and maintenance? Ago.

The deadly serious politicians have sent on forced retirement their scanty sense of humor, and cannot take it easy. Too ruffled all the time. Small minds have less elbow room for accommodation. They cannot make the nation laugh with their own antics. Too serious to be attractive, and too repelling to be invited.

Bangladesh could have taken off since the first general elections in 1991, but the politicians are cutting the branches on which they are perching and crowing. When they land on the soil, they try to bulldoze everyone in sight. Are we becoming a nation of bullfighters as in Spain. Balod use the horns and gore the enemy.

The tongue is spicy but the curry is bhejal, the rice full of stones, and the drinking water contaminated with political arsenic. This brand of hostage politics is not at all liberating. The horizon is getting narrower and narrower, but the leader are supposed to be expansive and broad-minded. Moral height widens the horizon.

Alms begging or alms giving? Who beg and who wish to rule? Beggars cannot run the show. Why our politicians are so helpless that they go about ranting all the while? Rouse or calm the nerves? Hartal is the art of doing nothing and get the work done through others! Create chaos to bring about order! This is the latest scientific discovery on cosmological principle, but Bangladesh is the country of wrong applications!

What the children have to learn from the elders who work in the political field? If they were asked to write an essay, what they would write about our fire-brand politicians? What is negative compliment? Twelve years wasted in political adda. We are a nation of adda-baaz during working hours. Look at the way the long list of demands are placed before the government by CBAs in the business sector, without telling the public what the manufacturers were doing to ensure quality control of the products marketed. Our society is fond of showing one side of the coin, learnt from the perverse political culture of the times. It is time to point out that our politics is a rent-seeking business as witnessed in some other sectors of the business world. We have no respect for law and order, as it applies to "others," and not to ourselves! We are always seeking exemptions. We have huge excuse-making factories, churning out demands in street agitation's, petition submissions, and belabouring the authorities on the flimsiest of pretext. It is otherwise known as passing on the buck, the losses, and keeping the profit. Exemplary examples are neither for sale nor display. It is out of date, these Nanoo Bhai maxims.

Coming back to what the people expect from the two major political parties is to shun this allergy of untouchability which is not a part of our social and cultural behavior pattern. Our traditional amiability has been burnt out into hard balls of hate campaigns. Mobility comes from flexibility and malleability. Our nature has hardened into fixed reference points of hate rating indices.