Traders in politics
The ninth national parliamentary election is knocking at the door. The civil society and people are expecting a fair, non-controversial election. Although, the controversy over the electoral process, role of Election Commission etc have come to the fore.
But, the interesting point is that both BNP and AL are not concerned about giving nomination of their parties to the black money holders, muscle men, business groups and many other non-political individuals. As far as I know from the statistics of Bangladesh Economic Association 87% and 77% of the total lawmakers of BNP and AL respectively are nominated from the non-political forums.
As a conscious citizen, I also oppose the idea of giving nominations to the non-political candidates.
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