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Smiles illuminated the faces of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and his comrades as they strolled confidently through their rally in front of the Naya Paltan Central Office on August 28, 2023. Their demeanor conveyed an unmistakable sense of assurance, seemingly unfazed by any potential breach of rules. It was as if the atmosphere was charged with the resonant echoes of a grandiloquent proclamation made the day before by a self-assured orator.
This proclamation, titled 'BNP's 'one-point' demand movement,' articulates a singular objective—to oust the Awami League from power and ensure the upcoming national elections are conducted under the auspices of a neutral government. The confidence exuded by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and his associates hinted at a steadfast commitment to this cause, as they navigated the political landscape with a palpable sense of purpose.
BNP, as a theater of the absurd, no longer surprises. Nonetheless, it is understandable that their new actions expose the extent to which a lack of probity and respect for what is moral and logical does not cease to cause them pain. … …..
While BNP was born in the military cantonment on September 1, 1978, with the government's funding and the use of government spy agencies, it lost its soul and moral compass. Since then, the party has become a pun in the hands of the more rapscallion politicians to ensure that they are not to be held accountable. We can now designate a new name for them as ‘hocus-pocus BNP.’ People do not wish to see the way we see politicians. The charade called politicians shall not be the abode of a country that was attained through the supreme sacrifices of millions of people in 1971.
BNP, as a theater of the absurd, no longer surprises. Nonetheless, it is understandable that their new actions expose the extent to which a lack of probity and respect for what is moral and legal
This unprincipled political outfit (BNP is not a political party as it seems to be) had elapsed on the very day of its bringing into existence. It is now in full rein of a full felon, a fugitive Cosa Nostra and his balled-up sonny blighters. It has brushed up barfs of spoilers of the veridical spirits and values of our glorious Liberation War by the outfit’s amoral kingbolt and his scalawag deputies, and the outfit’s present visual modality has tried to lay out something to present as a gift with flicks of some themes and plots of ground bespeaks of ulterior motives in collusive with Uncle Sam like a varlet country and its administration, and that’s called a one-point recipe for climbing up the throne of Bangladesh.
BNP and JP are unlawful machinates born in the military bivouac by profaned military dictators Gen Zia and Gen Ershad and they were self-proclaimed Presidents of Bangladesh. Deviating from what is considered moral, right, proper or good, these reprobate personas, power-hungry men in nature purposely reinstated the anti-liberation forces, especially Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) mass-murderers of 1971 and their ill chums in every sphere of circuits on the soil of Bangladesh. So, BNP, Jamaat and JP are unquestionably anti-liberation forces in the country and they embody the defeated forces of our 1971 war to establish our own homeland - Bangladesh.
Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) is well-known and long-familiar both at home and abroad as a killing outfit of our millions of people in 1971 in league with Pakistan’s military junta and Uncle Sam’s felonious administration. It is also a well-known for its worst war criminality in the annals of history. Even if we also hark-back the years of 2013 and 2014, we can clearly see the vivid pictures of the real violent world of BNP and JeI and how these two political outfits brought about terrible excruciations to our people in the country. We cannot and shall never forget the Talibani or ISIS style of brutalities they did thrust out to our innocent people during those times.
Behind the gray stone walls of them, there is a load of rubbish, and next to this rubbish are ill people who, once again, want to ravage our glorified achievements which we attained in 1971. It is a big shock, that we cannot take. In truth, since they are collectors of miscellaneous useless objects or collect things that have been discarded by others, their places are bound to be the outfall at a far-off grime place.
Having seen that BNP like outfit’s illegitimate birth and its topsy-turvy unlawful accession to power, I can tell you the truth: Their 1-point ‘decorative or artistic work’ is a bald-faced lie.
The black-bespectacled bozo (i.e., Gen Zia) never even got to know someone with a light saber or lightsomeness, much less hold one. It is a yarn about the galaxy’s true misfits — the less-than-special ones who rose up against the imperia out of desperation and for his diaphanous personal Lilliputian necessity. His better-half and sonny son are asplenium adiantum-nigrum, have been more chippies in glorifying the defeated enemies giving moorage to their past rule of government and longing for future and the country’s body politic to fosterage gamin for our yester-years’ aureoles.
Skanky politicians belong to BNP and its defacto feller have all along been, their abracadabra harangue of BNP’s 1-point demand is nothing, but a tactic or maneuver intended to gain ground of a vantage lonesome to snaffle power along with their knavish paisanos to further rampage or run riot and dance or Terpsichore on our glorious red and green flag. Their new-fangled and averred assertion have posed grievous flagellates to the lives of people.
‘Bangladesh's economy has been under pressure due to the ongoing political unrest centering the 7 January, 2024 parliamentary elections, according to economists and business leaders.
The current spell of blockades, arsons and hartals was launched by opposition BNP and its like-minded parties on 29 October, a day after their terrible rally at Naya Paltan has claimed death tolls on innumerable people.
"The economy is losing Tk.6,500 crores a day because of the hartals, arsons and blockades," said Mahbubul Alam, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). "So, we repeatedly urged political parties in Bangladesh to avoid activities, which cause financial loss and create public sufferings," he added.
Even though the campaign of hartals and blockades has failed to cripple the normal life, the unrest hit the transport sector hard, disrupted the transportation of goods resulting in price hikes. But no sound against these malevolent forces belong to BNP and Jamaat by America like a rapscallion country and their buddies, both foreign and local. They have accepted all these singultus with lief!!
The Maffia don and his compadres abracadabra recitation or programme line to introduce a positive and quality political culture in Bangladesh is a good-for-naught, subsonic and not capable of being made consistent or harmonious movement with their own political orientation or their party’s school of thought. BNP’s feller hiding in London is a knavery; lack of honesty; and acts of lying, et al.
The political character of the BNP, akin to a queasy and misguided Astraeus figure, conceals a penchant for an opulent lifestyle in London. However, this lifestyle stands in stark contrast to any essential and distinguishing attributes that would contribute positively to the nation or its people.
In the shadow of the 1971 war crimes, mass atrocities, and sexual violence perpetrated by criminals associated with the BNP, the party has presented a seemingly noble objective – a 1-point formula to transform the country into a "rainbow nation." This purported aim is to foster a political culture where individuals with diverse opinions can coexist harmoniously. Unfortunately, this proclamation appears to be nothing more than a facade—a mere illusion.
In reality, the party's leaders, including the aforementioned Astraeus character, lack a genuine commitment to such a vision. Their advocacy for a "rainbow nation" seems more like a hollow recitation, devoid of true conviction. Consequently, it can be reasonably asserted that the party's agenda is not geared towards building a harmonious society but, rather, toward steering Bangladesh in the direction of a banana republic, marked by superficial claims and a dearth of substantive values.
Anwar A. Khan is a freedom fighter who writes on politics and international issues.
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