Of Hasan and the ETV
Mohammed Shahjahan, Law College, Cox's Bazar
The other day we some colleagues at the local law college frantically raised sort of a storm over the tea cup on the ceaseless talk of the country, i.e., the thorny issue of the Non-Party Caretaker Government at the helm of the affairs of the state right now. Of the interesting deliberations that took place, some took my fancy inevitably. One of them was that despite enormous popularity, commitment and potentiality, the final hour set in for the now-defunct Ekushey Television (ETV) as soon as the then Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, reportedly transpired that it was she herself who named the said TV channel as it was. Perhaps this rather casual statement made by her drew, the discussant concerned opined, the sharp attention of her political rivals. Henceforth, they went on despising the ETV taking it for the AL's propaganda machine and then they came down heavily upon it at the very earliest opportunity making sure that it was done for, at least for the time being. The same discussant came up with the unique idea that whatever came to pass as to the country's former Chief Justice Hasan's taking over as the Chief Adviser of the present Care-taker Government were again the collective outcome of the same kind of zeal and arrogance on the part of the immediate past government. That he would eventually end up far from assuming the mammoth responsibility was virtually made clear the very moment the age-limit for retirement of the judges of the Supreme Court was increased by the over-enthusiastic government of the day to pave the way for Hasan to become the next Chief Adviser. Given his track-record of being upright throughout his judgeship, who could hold for sure he was not poised for the required service to the nation? To my utter surprise, most of the gentry present readily subscribed to this view. Not that I myself didn't felt inclined at all, too. As a matter of fact, politics as practised by our statesmen has taken to the evil way so profoundly that it hardly leaves room for mutual tolerance, trust and respect among the political parties. The way the political parties oppose one another on each and every national issue sans any consideration for rationality or acceptability never fails to get the citizens quite dismayed. To speak the truth, opposition for opposition's sake has been the single creed of the political parties here. Isn't it high time things were beginning to change for the better in the greater interest of the nation?
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