Strike and our political culture
Politics is a word which is very much related to development. But in case of Bangladesh it has reached a stalemate with little hope to move forward. Albeit Bangladesh achieved independence some thirty years ago, democracy was restored in 1990, nearly 14 years ago. But the political process is not strengthened with due pace. When one party remains in power, it is dead against strike while the opposition favours it. But once the table turns, the same ruling party opts for the destructive option i.e. strike and the opposition goes the same way. In 1990, we voted the BNP to power. It pledged many things but fulfilled a few. Being fed up, we elected the AL. But the AL, instead of eliminating the mess, created further mess.
We again voted for the BNP to save ourselves from AL oppression, but exactly the same things are going on with impunity. Things are not changing. The political parties are behaving in the same way, unfortunately though.
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