Intra-party democracy
In kingly hubris, they even defy the verdict of high judiciary. The path to successful democracy is said to be turbulent, but it really is not meant to be turbulent. The western world has learned the virtue of democracy painstakingly. But our neighbouring giant has learned the same at ease, simply because they are blessed with leaders who had a sense of foresight and a sense of history.
We, unfortunately, are lacking in both. Thus we see matrimonially horizontal or genetically vertical flow of anointed leadership in both major political organisations. An organisation that does not practice intra-mural democracy cannot be and ought not be expected to follow democratic principles especially when it is endowed (!) with the entire governmental prowess. The Awami League (AL) did it. The BNP just gave it an extra dimension.
No great improvement in the current political paradigm can be expected until the party-structure becomes more democratic allowing the leadership to grow up from the bottom and not imposed from the top.
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