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Kansat and after

10 May 2006, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By An analyst, On e-mail
10 May 2006, 18:00 PM
Abdul Bayes' observation (DS: May 9) presents a more or less factual reflection of events at Kansat and Demra; all the reactions to acute power and hence water paucity! Power supply would stumble on for, who knows, how long! The new rule of the game will be power rationing! How effective the powers to be can ration this vitally needed facility is another issue. Permits and rationing, under the prevailing situation, will naturally lead to corruption and money changing hands under or around the table. As such logically more rationing implies more income for the powers to be. Additional power generation has remained stalled, some allege, because of paucity of "percentage" -- another form of money changing hands! Till that is not solved, additional generation capacity will remain an illusive dream. Only the skid mounted units may have helped "percentage" wise!

Meanwhile the BNP lawmakers, guns and goons, as stated in the write up, will hone their skills. Today they are succeeding partially if not totally to foil the legitimate grievance or demand for power. This foiling is another important trial in election manoeuvrings; if only we can see deeper!

Mr. Bayes may have missed the underlying cause, because 'money, goons and guns' used here and there are key tools for the coming election modus operandi! With skills practiced and perfected and lessons learnt, the party mechanism will be well prepared and trained to lead the 'appropriate voters' to the ballot box, or more appropriately, to fill the ballot boxes with closely monitored recycled votes! Others will be kept at bay, so as not to mar the sure success election party!

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Perhaps many more exercises of Kansat, Demra need to be performed to perfect the technique of recycled voting! This highly confidential plan, however, has not been perceived by most of us.