Untold Facts

Secular Hasina urged Communal Minority Group to Save Democracy in Bangladesh!

There was a news report published in a Dhaka daily with a two column cover photo on the 27th September that the Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a an audience with her in New York the previous day with some delegates of the minority communal group asked them to help protect democracy from any likely threat in the country.

Was that not a curious matter first that ‘secular’ party chief Hasina allowed audience to a communal group staying in New York and claiming to be something for Hasina’s secular political Persuasion in the country? Even so, that curious matter happened. Why?

It is pleasing to hear about preservation of democracy by any body in politics. But it is also true that some politicians of the Awami League genre disturbed democracy at quite many instances and stages. Hasina’s ‘illustrious’ father historically well known to have gone rough with multi-party democracy in the country so much so that despite his earlier stand for open and multi-party democracy before saddling on to the State power turned an absolute dictator of the worst kind. He swept on the multiparty democracy and pluralism to one party State, and for repression of the one party rule he used extra constitutional Rakhi Bahini to contain dissenting voices that are common with pluralism and multi-party democracy. He closed down all newspapers, many of long standing and popular thus making unemployed huge working journalists except for only four for his own sycophancy two under his direct control and other two under his nephew Moni just only to play sycophancy and not for open freedom of speech and thought as are pre-requisites for democratic exercises.

It was more curious matter in Bangladesh that the non democratic men and institution like the Bangladesh Army restored democracy from the dictator Hasina’s father’s clutch not peacefully though but through obvious bloodsheds.

In the backdrop of historical experience, what did Hasina point out to the communal elements representing there in New York, if at all, about at most ten percent of the people of the country for protecting democracy?

The onus is now on Hasina to save democracy. Provided she could behave right as democracy demands there is no danger because, the people love democracy and not, for example, one party dictatorial BAKSAL of her father.

Author: Dr. M.T. Hussain