Tale of a government

By Mithun, Kamalapur, Dhaka
25 February 2004, 18:00 PM
If you think for some time you will find a lot of similarity between a private company in a monopoly business and the government of Bangladesh . Here I have tried to find some of the similarities.

When the election season comes a candidate buys the nomination paper by giving donation to a party, which is like buying share of the company. Again this system can be compared with the tender process as the highest bidder wins the nomination paper. In the election, a party takes the lead with the help of money and power. The party spends a huge amount of money and takes the lease of the country for five years. MPs (members of parliament) can be compared with the successful shareholders.

As they have taken lease, they think that they can do anything to recover their invested money with good profit and they obviously do that. They employ their representatives in different areas. Following the path of intrusion , the company takes control of everything. The company will do whatever is necessary to crush its rival company, which can be compared with the opposition party.