Desk Report,
The opportunity that the National Party can wait for
Elections are coming up. Those who have been allowed to go to the field are making preparations to go to parliament. Those who have not been allowed are guarding the ‘broken boat’ in the hope that the boat may be ‘repaired’.
The opportunity that the National Party can wait for
The party that was the ‘opposition party’ in parliament for so many years during Sheikh Hasina’s reign, after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, the people are supposed to dance with them. Sitting in the opposition party in parliament for 15 years in opposition to Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League is no small feat! If you open the book of rules and regulations of parliamentary democracy, you will see that the opposition party is the first to claim the formation of a new government after the fall of the government.
But the rules are left. Despite being in the opposition for so many years, the Jatiya Party did not get that honor. Now they are afraid to go to the field—everyone calls them ‘friends of fascism’. There is so much talk about reforms in the country, even the parties whose membership is limited to two to ten, are comfortably having tea and breakfast at the consensus commission. And the Jatiya Party’s many barristers and 15 years of parliamentary experience against the government – all this is not useful. No one is even asking them to give any input. They could have given some well-thought-out opinions to the Reform Commission on how to be a good opposition party!
Seeing this plight of the Jatiya Party, its three senior leaders, Senior Co-Chairman Anisul Islam Mahmud and two Co-Chairmen ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader and former Secretary General Mujibur Rahman Chunnu, came forward. They want to change the party’s constitution and give it a democratic look. Now is the time to keep pace with national reforms. If they can reform their own party, maybe the consensus commission will also be called.
The senior leaders are very unhappy with the right of the Jatiya Party chairman to make single decisions. Everything is in the hands of one person, how is this possible? Since he has been a minister and a member of parliament from the party for so long, nothing could be said, but how much longer can he remain silent?
