Untold Facts

Abuse of Leader’s Charisma for Vengeance by Sycophants

There are many news items in the media and in the air, as well, about serious abuse of charisma of the current top power-holding political leader and also of the previous one of the same party for vengeance. It is all likely that promoters of the sort of evil activities are nothing but taking recourse to pure sycophancy that is nothing uncommon in Bangladesh’s political culture. Such sycophancy as has always been harmful in the end not that much for the sycophants themselves for they are motivated by to secure very narrow end but for the greater good of the leaders’ concerned.
A renowned and famous founder Head Master of a renowned high school in the city of Dhaka has been given ‘forced leave’, his family already driven out from the school provided residence in the campus for his ‘fault’ and ‘audacity’ first, contesting in the 29 December parliament election in the Bagerhat constituency against one of the charismatic leader and now the top boss of the country. His other ‘crime’ and ‘disobedience’ was that he had not met some requests out of 408 by the local M.P. of the party for admission of some candidates possibly ineligible or otherwise not feasible to accommodate into the school. These are the reports I came to know from printed media in Dhaka during the last few days.
I had another report from a very reliable end that some disgruntled mini leaders of a powerful professional association have resorted to sycophancy of some party bosses to capture position in the top hierarchy of the group providing the plea or ‘argument’ that the existing bosses though duly elected in their own constitutional way on about two months ago be thrown out of their positions for they were labeled as supporters of the ‘opposition’ political group and so in their place the sycophants be saddled.
These are not all. The ‘Tender Businesses’ that had been on previously in the same notorious mode have once again resurfaced in the same style and identity of sycophancy.
Sycophants look for opportunities to come closer to the charismatic leader, and look for scopes to exploit leader’s weaknesses. After all, any human being is not without weakness, one form or the other.
It is as such the leaders in question who need to be on guard though not an easy job to do of any abuse of one’s charisma by any sycophant, the leader’s difficulty being public personality.
The leader, I tend to believe, has to get rid of such notorious sycophants by judiciously applying as deterrent one’s knowledge of issues in depth, personal wit and intuition.

- Prof. M.T. Hussain