Jamaat's game plan
One can see no great difference between the present and the immediate past prime minister. They essentially are two ladies, who capitalised on their family-misfortune to smoothen their silk road to power.
And yet the country is divided. And a new paradigm, after years of shrewd cultivation, has emerged. And it is Secular vs Non-secular Extreme Right. And this paradigm is such that the very essence of democracy is now in a crucible.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The BNP, for understandable reasons, forged an unholy alliance with Jamaat-e Islami . In the process they lent a sense of immense legitimacy to a party that fought against the very inception and aspiration of our nation. It shall not be a hard-headed concoction to imagine that the Jamaat shall use the democratic principle to get to the top, only to throw it away as used tissue paper as they reach their "Manzil".
It is sad to see that the young BNP leaders, with no sense of history or of ideology, are mingling happily with a group of extreme right wing idealists of the Jamaat.