Khaleda and Hasina, can you tell us why?
You placed a stunning photo on your front-page on 10 March, showing a farmer pulling a plough by himself because he can't afford to buy an ox. Anyone seeing this photo will simply freeze for few minutes, but this is not new. Like many of our readers, I have seen these in real life. I have saved this picture and our readers should also save it in a very special archive. Also, some massive-size posters of that picture should be placed all over Dhaka, with a message "Khaleda and Hasina, can you tell us why this?" But most importantly, few copies of that picture should be sent to all those countries that donate billions to Bangladesh for eliminating exactly this types of poverty. Copies should also be sent to Kofi Annan, International Criminal Court in Hague, and to those countries that give us billions of dollars of loans that these poor people never get to see!
In respect to the hard-working farmer Abdur Rashid, and in protest and condemnation to Khaleda and Hasina, may I request DS to put that picture here once again.
Our land is fertile, our people are hard-working; why then are we so poor?
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