Saarc summit

It is not tolerable for general public like us who are well experienced to frequent shocks and frustrations while skimming through the newspaper headlines of unexpected bomb blasts and grenade attacks taking the lives of innocent civilians which occurs due to the negligence of the government, as they never take these safety measures beforehand like they are now doing. It is my view that this grand Saarc summit would make little difference, if any, in alleviating poverty from our country. The government is making unappreciative expenditures just for presenting Bangladesh as a country of "Hospitality and Heritage" while failing to realise that it has already lost its chances to erase the notorious reputation and the name-tag before Bangladesh as the number one corrupt country.

Bangladesh is an underdeveloped country and the beautification on occasion of Saarc summit is extremely costly and is in fact one of the reasons for our country's economic hardships. Moreover it is not the government's money which the government is spending lavishly, but the national property. In addition to the two unreasonable official holidays, now the government has imposed more holidays. The government must not overlook that even one day holiday is not affordable for low class poor people whose bread is dependent on daily income.

I hope the government makes good use of what it is spending on Saarc, otherwise the occasion of Saarc summit would be nothing more than a mere razzle-dazzle and a slap on the face for our poverty-stricken country.