Law and order under control, is it?
"How can the price of the essentials be reduced if a truck carrying goods from Jessore to Dhaka has to pay toll to extortionists at 16 points?" commented Amir Khosru Chowdhury, commerce minister (The Daily Star, November 10, 2003). Our government is saying that the law and order is totally under control although the dailies are not supporting their comments.
We can see mugging, murder, toll taking by the godfathers and what not. But the commerce minister is confessing publicly that toll taking is practised by police and gangsters alike. The government also knows that law and order situation is out of control. I think the government should refrain from commenting that "Law and order is under control." Rather they should say that 'we're trying to improve the situation.'
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