Untold Facts

Hasina giving all not taking anything!

Report in a Dhaka daily on the 25th March stated quoting PM Hasina that she is on giving everything to the people and not taking anything. That sounded wonderful but hardly in substance for the people to believe.

If we recall what Hasina promised before the December 2008 election what we can see. She promised rice per Tk Ten/ Kg, but now people see that they can not buy the staple food item not at ten but at about three times higher price. Now she is saying that she did not make that promise but did so in 1996. Documentary proofs only established her in the matter as untruth.

She promised for providing jobs at least one to each family. Now after 15 months, she has done nothing except a token few of the party and just for publicity stunt.

She had promised to stop terrorism, but she did the opposite. Her youths everywhere even in colleges and universities have fully engaged in all terrorist acts. Tender snatching, rent seeking, terrorizing opponents- are these anything but terrorist acts?

She promised uninterrupted electric supply with minimum load shedding for the people by increasing production to 7,000 MW; the pity is that the total production is on an average barely 3,500 MW against the total demand of 5,500 MW. Load shedding in Dhaka city areas runs now nearly 10 hours in 24 hours. Now she is making fresh promises to import 150 MW or so electricity from India where they themselves are in short supply. Gas supply and water shortage is a daily matter with the urban people, particularly in Dhaka and Chittagong where they had been much better before.

She promised to make the parliament effective and centre of all national activities. She has turned the institution as something of mockery of personal vengeance and derogatory attacks on some dead leaders.
She had promised to contain corruption in the country, that looks now hollow talk as the ACC has already made toothless, clawless and also spineless so that her party people could go on earning two paisa underhand and get rich quick.

She promised to have a neutral and efficient administration; she has already made it most unfortunately fully politicized, biased and inefficient. Police is being used for protection of the party cadres and suppression of all opponents.

The independence of judiciary whatever had been there has by the 15th months passed been made totally subservient to the executive filled with less meritorious pliant party cadres and spineless lots.
I must, however, admit that though not promised before, she has given in full dimension one crucial thing. Politics, administration, judiciary etc, one may name as one would like, as the instruments of her shear vengeance and vengeance alone.

Let us now see if she has not taken anything so far from the public exchequer.

We need not talk about what she enjoys as the PM of one of the poorest country in the world. After all those are privileges, honorees allowances, etc as continuation of the colonial past.
What, however, she has got sanctioned uncommon to any democratic country should be accounted for moral grounds.

It is not she alone as the PM but for all of her extended family members-sister, daughter, son and their progeny got the preposterous act passed in the parliament for upkeep, maintenance and VVIP security whoever would stay alive wherever he or she would please to stay on including the unborn ones of the second and third generation. It is known that her family members not only divided but also live in various advanced countries, USA, England, Finland, etc. Hasina alone lives in Bangladesh but not all of the time as she keeps on traveling from one close relation’s place to another. I am not sure about the cost involved each year, because, they have been kept secret from public eye so far. Is there any example in any democratic country the sort of taking grant as Hasina has been granted and robbing the public exchequer? This is not any example of giving to the people but shamelessly and immorally fleecing public fund or stealing poor taxpayer’s purse. One would possibly give this taking a nod provided she and the extended family of 10 members now would be declared through the parliament a royal one of new brand in Bangladesh history that might somewhat legitimize the fund taking in this manner.

Author: BK Din