Back to square one?
Sanjoy Kumar Nath, Chittagong
I feel a mix of bewilderment and despair. All this time, we were hearing that the reason behind the prime minister's popularity (and that of her party) was the uncompromising refusal to cooperate with the military dictator Ershad. Yet it seems now that it is going to be reversed with a possibility of him becoming president again, facilitated by the uncompromising leader herself.Meanwhile, we hear the other former prime minister shouting herself hoarse about secularism and yet we know in the past and perhaps now there have been discussions with fundamentalists in a bid to grab power. So, can the people of Bangladesh ask, what were all the andolans and hartals for? Why did we have to shed so much blood if we are repeating the cycle? Only this time, the tragedy is we are doing it under the pretext of democracy. Shame on us.
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