Many say Occupy Wall street movement is not seeing any success coz it's without any goal...just revolution for revolution not a planned one where after success there will be a governing body or something like that.
Your dream about BNP is never likely to come true, just saying the fact that I believe having respect to your view. Both khaleda and hasina like only one thing...sheer flattering. Anyone raises voice for reform of full democratic administration gets kicked out. The democracy you want is never possible with any existing parties. And your view of 1st getting escaped from one and then reforming other will make you cry once when you see that you mistakenly bet on other part of coin. The way you dream to move ahead can only be achieved through mass revolution on streets.
OWS has already changed the narrative and the political debate in the US by introducing terms such as 1%, 99%, economic inequality and social justice etc. The goal of OWS is to make comprehensive change in the political and economic system, so:
- decision making power remains with the 99%, not just the rich 1% elite and also
- economic model is changed from current destructive one to an environmentally sustainable model
Well my first goal is to see that Indian influence in Bangladesh is curbed, for that bringing BNP to power is the best vehicle, I do not support Jamat getting too prominent except as a helper to BNP in sidelining AL, as I disagree with the flavor of political Islam that has started around the beginning of last century with Jamal Al Din Afghani, Hassan Al Banna, Syed Qutb and of course Moududi. They have fundamentally misunderstood the problems Muslim societies are facing because of their poor understanding of overall world situation, Muslims place in it and how we can get out of this weak and underdeveloped situation, in my opinion.
Once this menace of Awami League is removed, we should try to thoroughly cleanse RAW as much as possible from Bangladesh society. We should closely follow and monitor what Indian embassy's and other entity's are engaged in within Bangladesh.
As for BNP's reform, I have no direct experience with them, or any other political party, as I never did politics in Bangladesh or any other place. So I will let the experts on this issue handle that. But while we try to reform BNP, I would also recommend creating a grass roots community of activists, which is non-political and that focuses on all aspects of social improvement and start getting their hands dirty in actual projects, not just talking about it. All talks should be about actually doing something. Talks for just talking is useless.
Sometimes I feel like I get addicted to this site, engaging in useless debates with Indians, but at least we have some Bangladeshi's who I can share opinions with, some Pakistani's who have a lot of misunderstanding and also best of all many other nationalities who I can communicate with. But none of this will help any of us, unless we start offline organizing, which I plan to do, at some point.
If we, all the internet users of the Bangladesh, can unite in one place, lets say in the beginning in facebook, then there is a lot we can achieve. But the root of this effort has to be offline organizing and then using the internet as just a communication tool.
I have no great allegiance to BNP, I just see it as a useful available tool to remove India's harmful influence. What I would like to see is that intelligent people forget about political parties and start thinking more about the people, country and its future, in a united way. And I would encourage people to visualize a world where there is no opportunity for the crook politicians to unite and do more harm for societies. Politicians should run for office as independents and get elected on their track record and how well they can appeal to their electorate. There is no need for parties, if you think about it, it is divisive and it lets these crooks organize and subvert people's and country's interest.