Political Greenhouse effect

Of course there is apparently no visible leadership outside the domain of politics, as the politicians dominate the social scene, and elbow out others. The others take it weekly and try to merge under big tents; giving birth to a new fashion cult. The net vanity is arrogant and volatile, and puffed up like filled balloons.

Balloons, floating and flying, have no anchor or root in the ground, hence our politics is so unstable. A balloon bursts high up in the sky, due to atmospheric pressure difference. On the Dhaka metro playground, the same phenomenon is noticed. Notice how one old and aged party bagged only 60 seats out of 300 in the general elections, after running the preceding regime for five years, Name-calling (namta) has become a profitable game.

There are two visible features in our politics: tribalism, and caste system. There are achhut kanyyas and trigger-happy self-protection brigands earning their living through mystical or mysterious means. They listen to the gaibi awaaz from classified sources, known as godfathers. The latter are independent of time, place, nationality, religion, and educational degrees. There is a siren god on earth, known as the Mammon. They use steel, but it is not stainless steel.

There are two major political parties in Dhaka, alternating in governance. The fixations of these leaders are pitiable. They cannot get out of the groove, and confine their thesis most of the time on each other (mud-slinging, accusations and counter-accusations, as if there is nothing else to talk about.

Why the taxpayers are bearing their public expenses? While in power they talk about development projects, and while in the opposition they have one fixation, and see nothing but their opponents, forgetting the 60m voters.

Who care if one political party fades out and another is on the rise? We citizens expect proper, adequate public services, regardless of the name of the party. The current Opposition would be bitterly remembered for its selfish hartal calls, while the present regime has created a sort of world record with five dozen ministers in the cabinet, to rule an impoverished nation. High-level Employment Agency, like the hundreds of mushroom firms offering jobs overseas! How the bakshish rate is too high for any official job solicited by an ordinary citizen. This unofficial toll collection by officials is not being spotlighted (read the launch design and contraction tales in the DS of March 4).

It is a nafsi age (amar ki hobey!). Proxy politics is very popular in the third world. Exploit the masses- nakedly (does not matter which side is naked)! The two parties may be given some homework: compile a list of ten examples of personal sacrifices and suffering by their leaders during the last 15 years (not earlier!). During the Raj era, many Indian leaders went to jail several times, on principle. Nowadays political prison sentences do not contribute to name and fame. The new generation politicians are being molded in similar perverse environment, and the outside critics are keeping quiet. Sometimes denials become admission!

Coming: Political Greenhouse Effect. It is already a global epidemic.