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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Bangladesh Awami League has already got 229 seats in the General Election of December 29. It is expected that the number of seats may increase few more. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] and Jatiyo Party [JP] has bagged 29 seats each. With this result, it is now a big question in the minds of people as to whether Jatiyo Party would now emerge as the main oposition in the parliament, while absolutely cornering Bangladesh Nationalist Party as the minority in the parliament too. According to experts and analysts, people of Bangladesh, this time not only voted against anti liberation forces and Islamists but also voted against autocrats like Ershad. With this electoral result, now Sheikh Hasina has got people’s mandate of forming the government without any support from millitary dictator like Ershad or leftists like Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Huq Inu etc.

After 1973, Bangladesh Awami League has got massive victory in the parliament election. In 1973, although people of Bangladesh voted for Awami League with the aspiration of a Golden Bangladesh under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but, the government ultimately and unfortunately turned into the most autocratic regime, introducing black laws like Special Powers Act in 1974, banning all newspapers and suffocating the voice of media, introducing one party politics like BAKSAL and also establishing para-millitary force named ‘Rakkhibahini’ to destroy Bangladesh Army.

Many of the political analysts although are critical on formation of BAKSAL, they feel that Bangabandhu’s steps in minimizing the strength of Bangladesh Armed forces was extremely appreciating and timely, as in the past 32 years, people of Bangladesh in most of the times witnessed interference of army in stopping democratic process in the country. Most of the over ambitious Generals most of the times tried to defame country’s politics and democratic institutions. Even after 1/11 political changes in Bangladesh, Generals and the millitary controlled interim government tried their best to put a very nasty image on all the polticians in Bangladesh. But, their attempts now visibly are foiled and people of Bangladesh voted in favor of the oldest political party under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina supporting her latest theme of ‘Vision 2021’. It is now expected by many of the people in the country that Sheikh Hasina will truly emerge as the cherismatic administrator who will not only lead the entire nation towards peace and prosperity but will also ensure a very stable Bangladesh in the region. Her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman played key role in placing Bangladesh in the prestigious position amongst the South Asian neighbors.

Bangladeshi people are already frustrated with the exorbitant rise in the price of essentials. Sheikh Hasina already reminded the people that during her rule price of essentials were almost 4 times less than what is prevailing now. It is a timely aspiration of the people of the country that, within next 2-3 months, Awami League government will be able to pull down the prices of essentials at least fifty per cent less than what is existing now. They also want to see a real initiatives from the government in ensuring housing, medical and other essential facilities for the 150 million people in the country.

The next aspiration of the people of Bangladesh is to see trial of war criminals under the rule of Sheikh Hasina. It was one of the top agendas of Sheikh Hasina of trying the war criminals. It is expected that the trial will begin much ahead of March 26 2009.

In 1996, when Bangladesh Awami League won the election, Sheikh Hasina was more busy in getting ‘Doctorate’ degree from various foreign institutions as well as grabbing the ownership of ‘Ganabhaban’ [official residence of the Prime Minister] as well Awami League hooligans like Shamim Osman, Joinal Hazari, Abul Hasnat Abdullah, Maya Chowdhury, Dipu Chowdhury, Dr. Iqbal, Haji Mockbull, Haji Selim etc established reign of terror in the country. Despite series of protests by the people of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina ignored these facts and continued to extend various forms of support towards such nasty elements.

On the other hand, a number of ministers in Awami League cabinet such as Amir Hussain Amu, Tofael Ahmed, Sajeda Chowdhury, Mufazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Professor Abu Sayeed, Mohammed Nasim etc were busy in almost free-styled corruption and nepostism. Civil administration was totally polarized by the then rulling party.

It is now the expectation of the people of Bangladesh, that Sheikh Hasina will not repeat the errors of the past. She truly will lead the nation towards peace and prosperity as the proud daghter of the founding father of the nation.

But, some of the analysts are rather skeptical on a real cherismatic administration under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina. They are fearing that absolute power may corrupt the next government absolutely. Awami League may even turn into the worst ever fascist and dictatorial regime in the history of the country.

We as Bangladesh most influentail newspaper want to believe that, Sheikh Hasina will use the massive mandate of the people in shaping Bangladesh as the most prosperous nation in South Asia. She will also do anything in combating rise of Islamist millitancy and radical Islam. Hasina will surely adopt dynamic policies in extending hands of cooperation towards the South Asian neighbors as well as international communtiy. Decade old culture of hatred towards other religions like Christianity and Judaism shall come to an end. Bangladesh will never allow any anti-Ahmadia activites in the country. Above all, as part of Sheikh Hasina’s role in presenting the country as a true secular nation and key-player in regional and internation peace, Bangladesh will establish relations with Israel, without wasting any further time.

Weeklyblitz.net : Internet Edition
 
A bad beginning of the Prime Minister elect in Bangladesh

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Political parties are generally burdened with the ugly influence of some hooligans and thugs. People of Bangladesh who voted for electing a new government under the leadership of Bangladesh Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina at least aspired that this time, this party will not repeat its notorious misdeeds like 1973 or 1996. They were confident that this time, Bangladesh Awami League, which got landslide victory would at least change its facist character.

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister elect Sheikh Hasina was scheduled to address the members of local and international press and fixed 4:00 pm [Bangladesh Time] at the National Press Club VIP lounge for the event. Most of the representatives of local and foreign press rushed to the spot. They were asked to wait till Sheikh Hasina comes. Meanwhile, bunch of Awami League activists started coming inside the press club auditorium and captured most of the seats while the journalists were even unable to get any place within the premise to cover the important event. While the foreign journalists were almost sweating and waiting to hear from the Prime Minister elect, they were suddenly told that the premise has been changed to another auditorium at the Ground Floor of the National Press Club. Then it was turn for the members of the media to almost battle with the Awami League activists to rush to the new place. But, finally when they went, proud leaders of Bangladesh Awami League told them that the press conference was postponed till further notice.

This drama has greatly annoyed many of the foreign journalists. They commented that if the newly elected Prime Minister cannot even manage her own party cadres and had to ultimately abandon the first ever press conference, what type of rule she may exhibit to the people of Bangladesh?

Weeklyblitz.net : Internet Edition
 
Here are some from list of things Awami league promised delivering, people will be counting…...no slip and sliding

1) 10 taka retail price for per kg rice
2) Free fertilizer for farmers
3) Arrange Job for every able person
4) No law against Islam and Islamic faith
5) No sell out to India which include
  • No transit, transshipment
  • No use of Bangladeshi territory by indian law enforcement or defense forces
  • Not selling BD maritime economic zone by accepting indian equal distance
    formula.
  • Not opening Bangladesh border and market further for indian export
  • Not disabling or reducing Bangladesh military and defense capability
    according to indian prescription.
.
.
.
 
WEEKLY BLITZ as a source,interesting!!
Isn't this MOSSAD's newspaper??
 
Here are some from list of things Awami league promised delivering, people will be counting…...no slip and sliding

1) 10 taka retail price for per kg rice
2) Free fertilizer for farmers
3) Arrange Job for every able person
4) No law against Islam and Islamic faith
5) No sell out to India which include
  • No transit, transshipment
  • No use of Bangladeshi territory by indian law enforcement or defense forces
  • Not selling BD maritime economic zone by accepting indian equal distance
    formula.
  • Not opening Bangladesh border and market further for indian export
  • Not disabling or reducing Bangladesh military and defense capability
    according to.
    indian prescription
.
.
.


sounds cooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllll......................................!!!!!!!

I want to see Bangladesh possessing one of the strongest military on earth...

May Allah fulfils my request.
 
Here are some from list of things Awami league promised delivering, people will be counting…...no slip and sliding

1) 10 taka retail price for per kg rice
2) Free fertilizer for farmers
3) Arrange Job for every able person
4) No law against Islam and Islamic faith
5) No sell out to India which include
  • No transit, transshipment
  • No use of Bangladeshi territory by indian law enforcement or defense forces
  • Not selling BD maritime economic zone by accepting indian equal distance
    formula.
  • Not opening Bangladesh border and market further for indian export
  • Not disabling or reducing Bangladesh military and defense capability
    according to indian prescription.
.
.
.

Where did AL say these things? Is there a link? I am surprised by the last part of the list. Has AL committed to these promises?

If the AL fail on the first 2 points on the list then this government is finished whether it has 262 seats in parliament or not. The public will react swiftly and mercilessly if the AL breaks these promises. An analyst has described AL's wish list as political suicide since they are unachievable without great cost to the nation.
 
Here are some from list of things Awami league promised delivering, people will be counting…...no slip and sliding

1) 10 taka retail price for per kg rice
2) Free fertilizer for farmers
3) Arrange Job for every able person
4) No law against Islam and Islamic faith
5) No sell out to India which include
  • No transit, transshipment
  • No use of Bangladeshi territory by indian law enforcement or defense forces
  • Not selling BD maritime economic zone by accepting indian equal distance
    formula.
  • Not opening Bangladesh border and market further for indian export
  • Not disabling or reducing Bangladesh military and defense capability
    according to indian prescription.
.
.
.

Please give the link,I didn't find anything like that.
 
I am pretty sure that points 1,2 and 4 have been stated by the AL during the campaign trail. Not sure about the rest.

I could only find this reference but cannot get access -

AL pledges to keep rice, oil prices within reach


Bangladesh News 24 hours, Bangladesh - Dec 5, 2008

Rice will sell at Tk 10 a kg and edible oil at Tk 20-39 a litre even if means subsidy has to be given, former MP Asaduzzaman Noor said at a rally at Ashulia ...
 
This seems to confirm that at least 1 Awami Leaguer has made the pledge to bring down rice to Tk. 10 per kg.

AL pledges to keep rice, oil within reach

Dhaka, Dec 5 (bdnews24.com) – The Awami League-led alliance will make sure the prices of rice, lentil and edible oil will be within reach if people voted it to power, a leader said on Friday.

Rice will sell at Tk 10 a kg and edible oil at Tk 20-39 a litre even if means subsidy has to be given, former MP Asaduzzaman Noor said at a rally at Ashulia.

He called upon the people to vote for the alliance nominee in Dhaka-19 (Savar) constituency.

AL pledges to keep rice, oil within reach :: Politics :: bdnews24.com ::
 
Here are some from list of things Awami league promised delivering, people will be counting…...no slip and sliding

1) 10 taka retail price for per kg rice
2) Free fertilizer for farmers
3) Arrange Job for every able person
4) No law against Islam and Islamic faith
5) No sell out to India which include
  • No transit, transshipment
  • No use of Bangladeshi territory by indian law enforcement or defense forces
  • Not selling BD maritime economic zone by accepting indian equal distance
    formula.
  • Not opening Bangladesh border and market further for indian export
  • Not disabling or reducing Bangladesh military and defense capability
    according to indian prescription.
.
.
.

Hasina has an obligation to upgrade and expand Bangladesh's military because everyone knows she is a target of Islamic militants. And only the Army can protect her.
 
Ominous signs

We certainly appreciate Sheikh Hasina’s call to her party workers for restraint but the scale of attacks being made on BNP-Jamaat activists and leaders leaves us gravely concerned. Even yesterday, at least 10 BNP and Jamaat supporters were injured in separate attacks by AL activists in different parts of Khulna city. In Kishoreganj, Awami League activists attacked the houses of local BNP men in Kuliarchar and Katiadi upazilas, leaving 12 injured. Six BNP men were injured in another attack by AL workers at Parbacharparatala village in Katiadi upazila on Tuesday midnight. In Sylhet, AL activists set fire to the house of a local BNP leader at Munshirgaon village in Biswanath upazila early Tuesday. In another incident, four BNP activists were injured in an attack by AL workers at Jasherpur village in the upazila at the same time. On Tuesday, three people were killed and 34 injured in post-election violence in different parts of the country amid feelings of pleasure over Monday’s dramatic election results.

It is time that the AL chief acts swiftly to stop her party workers now going on rampage in different parts of Bangladesh. She also should take note of a report in the daily Independent that BCL workers have now returned to the campus in jubilation, occupied all student dormitories of Dhaka University and ransacked several rooms of JCD activists. Such spate of violence in fact belies her oft-repeated statement that her party had never resorted to terrorism. But inaction and silence in the wake of extensive attacks mean ‘go-ahead’ to vandals and musclemen. ‘Logi-Baitha’ rallies are a grim reminder of this.

All these attacks are reminiscent of the 1996-2001 Awami League rule. Terrorism, which once spawned in certain pockets, had suddenly spread to the grassroots after AL took over. This had tarnished the image of the AL so much so that during the 2001 general election, even party men like Al-Haj Maqbul Hossain of Mohammadpur and Haji Selim of old Dhaka area had to promise in their poll posters their firm resolve to contain terrorism once elected. But then common voters, who had fallen victim to their acts of terrorism, utterly disbelieved their promises and voted against them. We welcome Hasina’s move to set up a joint South Asian Taskforce to contain terrorism in the region. We will acclaim her more if she immediately establishes such a Taskforce inside Bangladesh to weed out local terrorists as they only breed seeds of civil strife, which will surely spare none in the society.

The News Today
 
CU students vacating halls fearing clash

Chittagong, Jan 1 (bdnews24.com) – Chittagong University students have been vacating the residential halls since Dec. 30 in fear of violent conflicts between Awami League's student wing Chhatra League and a few other student organisations.

Since the day after the general election on Dec. 29, which the AL-led grand alliance won, the residential students of six halls of the university have left with their belongings.

They took temporary shelters in bachelors' quarters or relatives' houses in the city.

Vice chancellor Prof Badiul Alam held an emergency meeting with the proctor and provosts on Wednesday in the wake of the students leaving halls.

The meeting decided to monitor the halls regularly to help genuine residents get back to halls and also suggested steps to maintain peace on the campus.

On a visit to the halls on Thursday bdnews24.com hardly found any students in the halls except the members of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the Jamaa-e-Islami-backed student organisation.

Mustafizur Rahman and Saiful Islam of Shahjalal Hall, Abdur Rashid of Shah Amanat Hall, Rezwan Ahmed of AF Rahman Hall, Abdul Latif and Iftekhar Hossain of Shaeed Suhrawardy Hall left the dormitories on Wednesday.

They told bdnews24.com they apprehended a violent conflict after pro-BCL students, who had been driven out of the halls by four-party alliance adherents before, get back to their halls.

Asked about the students leaving the halls en masse, CU proctor Prof Mohammad Jasim Uddin told bdnews24.com the authorities were doing all they could to maintain calm.

Provost of Shaheed Abdur Hall told bdnews24.com the Wednesday's meeting chaired by the VC asked the authorities to visit the halls to keep an eye on the situation and maintain order.

On Thursday, BCL brought out a procession along the university thoroughfares for the first time after seven years.

BCL's CU unit vice president Mohammad Anisuzzaman Emon told bdnews24.com, "Not through conflict, but through legitimate means we want to board the halls."

Meanwhile, Islami Chhatra Shibir has announced it will resist the members of BCL and other organisations getting into the halls.

Its organising secretary Zakir Hossain told bdnews24.com, "Shibir's control on the halls was always there and will always remain."

He warned the BCL and other student organisations that "any attempt to create problems on the campus would be strongly dealt with".

He said the results of the national election have no bearing on who controls the residential halls.

Shibir has been dominating the six halls and more than 50 nearby cottages for long.

CU students vacating halls fearing clash :: Education :: bdnews24.com ::
 
Where did AL say these things? Is there a link? I am surprised by the last part of the list. Has AL committed to these promises?

If the AL fail on the first 2 points on the list then this government is finished whether it has 262 seats in parliament or not. The public will react swiftly and mercilessly if the AL breaks these promises. An analyst has described AL's wish list as political suicide since they are unachievable without great cost to the nation.

First 3 rice, fertilizer and job promise was made by Hasina. It appreared in all most all newspaper.

4 was also decleared by Awami league during campaign.

5 and sub items under 5 are part of Awami projection that they are not sell out to india. So they need to prove it to people.
 
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