Hope this time the relation remains same during BNP period too. From the Indian PoV, if we do not distinguish between somebody who wants to work with us and somebody who want to get vote by posturing against us, we will lose both of them.
Why would somebody commit electoral suicide by allying with us, if we cant show visible positive reason for doing so.
I don't know what "Indian point of view" are you talking about.
Most of us here have the luxury of having our own ideologies, may it be any form of nationalism, secularism, feminism, Communism, Capitalism, Islamism, and all manner lisms'. And of-course, toys, BIG EXPENSIVE TOYS
Most people in Bangladesh in fact do not care about ideologies. There are many poor people in Bangladesh, many unable to have three square meals a day and struggle to have a roof over their heads all their lives. Do you think that they would be busy with what ideology is good or bad? Or if AL or BNP is better? They just want to have easy access to food on their tables and a roof over their heads, and a self sufficient one at that.
And since the poor (who are the majority) do not have Internet or any form of access to technology, I'll speak for them.
You see, when the poor people of Bangladesh see Hasina focusing on building multi-billion dollar airports and monuments over her dead father, it really doesn't help as far as a good image goes.
New int'l airport to cost Tk 50,000cr
Airport on other side of Padma: PM
Glass tower gets green light
That money alone could have been better spent. And the current airport is not even used fully to its potential. The current one is more than enough to meet Bangladesh's requirements. The new airport would cost around $7.5 billion. The glass monument to be completed by June next year, costing around $200 million.
Then there is the stock market scandals in which many small investors lost a lot of money. Much of those scandals are done by AL men. Salman Rahman (an AL man) is one of them.
There is also a lot of infighting within the AL gangs, and of-course with others. They also happen to commit much of the crime in Bangladesh, and they get blessings from politicians as well. For example, if they steal your car, you'll never see it again, or see the culprits captured. There are BNP gangs, but AL ones are nastier and more widespread, especially when the AL comes to power. Hasina don't do anything about them.
I drive my car alone at night = I die.
Then, I see all these propaganda posters of Hasina showing how good she is and all, hugging little kids, feeding them medicine, etc. You see, that is the kind of thing that angers people. Even the entrance to the airport has a greeting poster of Hasina. Even during the ICC World Cup.
Doesn't bode well for India either if it simply banks everything on one party as far as Bangladesh goes.
Honestly, I don't think the two women are actually interested in a self-sufficient Bangladesh. They are only interested in themselves for the most part.
Political instability in Bangladesh is highly probable and might be a threat as well. More so than climate change.
