By: Prodip

Prodip — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:40:48 +0000

Dear Mr. Gomes, Thanks for this article and I think, change is inevitable if you want it or try to avoid it. But if you perform an proactive role for change, then you can make an pressure the change as you desire. In any society, there have a large number of people and groups who are actively performs for change for persuing their own interest. These are the power and change comes according to these power relation which I tried to recall in earlier at FB.
Anyway, you wrote a real picture of our country without thinking these power relation. In the sub-continent, may in allover the world, people talked against the political hegemony, but act for it directly or indirectly; counciously or unconciously. In Bangladesh, unfortunately, we are maintaining this political hegemony. We have criticised much more these hegemony and tried to break it in diffirent times in diffirent ways. In last two years during millitary backed caretaker government, we have found some initiative to minus Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia from Politics. But the caretaker government failed to persue it at last. And the people who are opposing these hegemony, they are also failed in election, because they could not influence the people to vote aginst these hegemony. So, we found, Sheikh Hasina won the election and became prime minister and Khaleda Zia became opposition leader.
Why did it happen? Because, these two leaders holds the power as the people wants them and the people like us who are opposing these hegemony, have failed to influence the people to oppose them. So, power has gone to them again.
Now let us come to some points on your article. In Bangladesh, after independence, the maximum chunk of time, Bangladesh has been ruled by millitary and their allies. And they have made Bangladesh as a religious country violating the principles of liberation war only for their existance. Why? Because only for securing power! So, you can not expect anything as you desire from these opportunists leaders and religious political allies. On other hand, based on religious counting, the minority people (by born unfortunaltely I am also) acts more during liberation war, but fails to act after independence. If you count the political participation if diffirent political parties, you will be frustrated. Most of the minority people are acting as grassroots activists in Awami League, a very few, mostly uncountable has taken part in the decision making process of political parties. So, how do they become prime minister or president of the state? We can raise a emotional demands, but it is not practical at all in power relation. Sometimes, somebody blessed by power like Iasuddin Ahmed, the formar President of Bangladesh; but never s/he got power to exercise due to her/his inefficency to realise the power. So, if anybody select Prime Minister or President of Bangladesh from Minority in the future, we can feel complacency, but I never count it as a positive change. Because change comes by exercising power, not by blessing.
About rename of BDR, I never feel soft on it as like you. Do you think, the present government feels soft? I can say, yes! because they are holding power and exercise it. And they are preparing the rename! I know it as all the people. I know, they are just maximising the power. It is politics and the politician are bound to do such activities.
Now at end question. Do you think, people are ready to accept change the name of Bangadesh? I know, people are not ready and if you raise these question in this situation, you will be controverisal. I think, it is not change which Bengamin Franklin said as “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” But it is aginst this statement because you want to force the change without generating the power.
Thanks again for your article!

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