PRO-RUSSIAN, PRO-INDIAN POLITICS OF THE RULING PARTY OF HASINA AND HER ATHEISTS ALLIES ARE OBSOLETE NOW. ANTI-AMERICANISM & ANTI-PAKISTANISM IS NO MORE THE FAVOURITE TOPIC OF TODAYS BANGLADESHI PEOPLE. MOREOVER NEXT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT MIGHT QUESTION OR CANCEL THE TREATIES AND CONTRACTS HASINA TRYING TO RUSH TO MAKE WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES FOR THEIR VALIDITY & LEGALITY BECAUSE HASINA’S IS NOT AN ELECTED BUT SELECTED GOVERNMENT WHERE MORE THAN HALF OF THE MEMBERS WERE INCLUDING HASINA WERE DECLARED M.Ps EVEN ONE MONTH BEFORE A FRAUDULENT ELECTION TOOK PLACE WHEN LESS THAN 8% OF THE ELECTORATES WENT TO THE BOOTH TO CASTE THEIR VOTE. THE WORLD HAS NOT SEEN SUCH AN ABUSE OF POWER, RAPING OF DEMOCRACY & THE ROBBING OF THE PEOPLE OF THEIR RIGHTS TO ELECT A GOVERNMENT OF THEIR OWN CHOICE: BY ATTACKING THE AMERICAN MINISTERS, DIPLOMATS, AMBASSADORS USING MOST FILTHY BENGALI VOCABULARY HASINA & HER ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT HAS NOT ADVANCED THEIR CASE EVEN ONE STEP FORWARD. Bypassing diplomatic procedure & insulting & abusing the respectable foreign dignitaries is definitely not the way to demonstrate patriotism. She should withdraw the remarks made by herself, her ministers or apologise to the American government. -Khan Yunus Ali : Barishal===== =============================== Fear of ‘regime change’ rattles ruling party Sadeq Khan. net.Dhaka:05.12.2014. A latent fear appear to be haunting the leaders of the ruling party, who ensured continuity in power stage-managing majority of nominees declared elected without contest in league with a puppet opposition and ignoring the boycott of real and massive opposition to the January 5 polls process.The ruling clique also successfully tricked the opposition alliance into a recess of the latters mass movement by feelers of possible negotiations for a follow-up election to regularise the faulty process. Such negotiations never materialised, and the power-grabbers managed further to cow down opposition alliance leaders and activists by unusually high doses of police raids, repression, arrests and prosecution, falsely implicating them in alleged conspiracies and criminal cases.Now in the wake of tremendous public alienation under the misrule and mafia disposition of the ruling coterie, parties to the mainstream opposition have begun to reorganise and engage themselves in a mass-contact campaign, holding public meetings in major cities and cross-country mobilisation of activists preparatory to a reported plan for centrifugal road-marches under the command of Begum Khaleda Zia to a number of divisional headquarters by the end of this year, ostensibly to gather momentum for a mass upsurge. Khaleda Zias public meetings are already drawing colossal crowds. But that does not worry the incumbents in power. Police and compliant judiciary-They openly boast they have enough tricks up their sleeves to be able to tackle the opposition moves by police raj methods and with the support of a compliant judiciary. What seems to be bothering the men in the government is an uncertainty in the geopolitical flux, the possibility of increased India-US understanding subverting the hegemonic neighbours unqualified support for the dangerously unpopular, mindlessly despotic regime in Bangladesh. Any upheaval, they fear, organised or extemporary, or any terrorist adventure from across the border (a high degree of possibility of which is evident from the Burdwan blast in India) or from within the country could trigger internal and external geo-political and institutional consensus for a regime change to a more responsible order in Bangladesh. That is the calculation upsetting the government leaders, so much so, they are resorting to silly rebuttals and rude invectives to counter even the mildest of critical expressions from power players in the regional theatre. Raving ruling party reaction to the recent visit and press comments of US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Deshai Biswal is a case in point. Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam branded visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal as a minister worth two pence. Also minister for Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD), Ashraf said Khaleda Zia was yesterday (November 28) seen sitting before a US minister worth no more than two or four pence. Nisha, a US citizen of Indian origin, is not yet married. But on television two-times Prime Minister Khaleda Zia looked like a baby with her hand stretched soliciting a gift from a girl of 22 or 23 years of age, as if Miss Deshai would be handing over power to Begum Zia then and there. Decency costs nothing - Syed Ashraf also drew a parallel between the US Ambassador in Bangladesh Dan W Mozena and his housemaid Morzina. Ashraf said Khaleda Zia in that meeting was looking at another person (accompanying Ms. Biswal) who tried best to stop January 5 polls in vain. He failed and is set to leave the country next week never to return to Bangladesh as his tenure expired. Bangladesh is no longer in such shape that housemaid Morzina could change power in the country.Another senior leader of the ruling party, Awami League Vice-President Suranjit Sengupta took up the cudgel against US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Desai Biswal in similar vein of derision, simply to assert that general election will be held in this country only in accordance with provisions of the constitution, i.e. when the government gives an early election or when the five year tenure of the declared elected government expires. Nisha Biswal had told the press before her departure that the people (not the government?) of this country would decide when Bangladeshs next national election is to be held.Nisha Desai Biswal, who came here after attending the SAARC summit in Kathmandu where she represented the US as an observer, also said Washington is very focused on taking forward its relations with Dhaka: We have continued to advocate a strong and inclusive democracy and we will continue to work with Bangladesh, she said on November 29 at the press briefing before leaving Dhaka after a three-day tour. Biswal met with the official Leader of the Opposition Raushon Ershad, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, RMG sector bigwigs including labour activists, and representatives of the civil society. It was her second visit in a years time as Assistant Secretary of State. Last November she made her first trip to Dhaka just before the Jan 5 election that the US said was not credible. The US then also called for a fresh election as soon as possible with an agreed poll-time dispensation over which BNP had boycotted the polls. Dhakas strength is democracy- She skirted a direct reply to a question on the latest US position on the polls: ….in terms of elections it is for the people of Bangladesh to determine the time-table. The day before, she reportedly asked Raushon about timetable for the next election. Replying to a question on what she discussed with the BNP chief, Biswal said: Wherever we go, we always meet with the government and the opposition. That is a home work for democracies. We do believe Bangladeshs strength as a nation is its democracy and we are committed to partner Bangladesh in that. She said that during her meetings she had expressed the US support for political dialogue and we also stressed on the responsibility of all political parties to use political space responsibly and peacefully. She said her visit to Bangladesh came at a critical time as it was just after the SAARC summit where all leaders spoke on connectivity, trade and investment. She informed the press that US Secretary of State John Kerry was looking forward to Bangladesh Foreign ministers visit to Washington. She said Bangladesh was an important partner and it was not for bilateral relations alone. The visit gave her an opportunity to discuss issues across the broad range of partnership to address challenges in the areas of heath, environment and agriculture, and also regional and global challenges. Bangladesh has done so much and we want to see the progress continue.She said during her speech in the SAARC summit she told the South Asian leaders that for ensuing peace and prosperity it is not just enough to have economic development and economic connectivity. It is also important to have resilient democratic institutions such as transparent and accountable governance, and economic and political system that will be inclusive and growth strategies that are environmentally sustainable. Dhakas partnership very important-Bangladeshs foreign secretary led in Washington and termed that dialogue a very robust one. She added that her visit was also continuation of that dialogue: …we found many areas of convergence of shared goals where we wish to deepen and strengthen our relations and this visit is a continuation of that dialogue.The partnership with Bangladesh is very important for countering terrorism in the region. The assistant secretary said she was supposed to join Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the inauguration of the Bibiyana gas transmission system at Habiganj next day November 30, but …my logistics prevented me from going there as she would fly to Uzbekistan that evening. I look forward for engaging with the prime minister in the future as well.One cannot but wonder why a straightforward position as the US Assistant Secretary of State maintained should provoke such an indecent uproar from ruling party stalwarts followed by loud orchestration of foreign interference in our internal affairs in the pro-government media.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:14:44 +0000
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