I have more or less unofficially worked for the BNP, it was draining and now i am completely demoralized, lets see what happens. I don't have the motivation ...
@kalu_miah
I wrote this paper around three days before Tarique Rahman's announcement for the 5th January movement.
So what happened on January 5, 2014 and what is supposed to happen on the same day this year?
The moral high grounds of the BNP appears to be power, money and 'democracy', the activists of the BNP need a cause to die for, a real cause, the people of Bangladesh need a cause to die for. The BNP has no moral high ground to preach about democracy given its not so bright last term. The BNP’s morale will be badly hit, very badly hit…
YES! the movement for democracy succeeded back in the 90s to topple the fascist dictator Ershad, but the people of Bangladesh have experienced democracy under these two parties and are not so satisfied with their records. Back then, if Ershad ordered the killings of unarmed protestors like birds, he would have been skinned alive by the army and the people of Bangladesh like the facist dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy.
Only a campaign on the fair share of the Teesta water can topple this government, nothing else can...
A single citizen of Bangladesh gets killed by a bullet, ten others will join, it has a just moral high ground and a cause to die for. Not to forget the International media attention it will get, Imagine reading the headlines “people dying for the right of water”, it makes a great sad story. The Indians will be likely be running scared from the international media backlash.