The term ‘politics’ has become so overused that the suffix ‘Depoliticization’ adds insult to injury. In this small land, politics is so prevalent that one wonders if the rest of the world produces as much. And that’s why Bangladesh’s political parties have no workers, only leaders upon leaders. Except for the political appointees, who are like ‘choosing a thief and emptying the village’, there are hardly any people left in this country. That’s why we’ve all had the privilege of witnessing the majestic sight of stages collapsing under the weight of leaders at the programs of the country’s two largest parties. But we fear that one day, the entire country might collapse under the weight of these leaders, just like the stages did.
In this country, 50 ministers and their extended families (50 x 300 = 15,000) hold positions higher than at least 15,000 ministers. 300 MPs and their families (300 x 50 = 15,000) wield more power than at least 15,000 MPs. The dignity and power of these people make humans, animals, and nature restless, and a pervasive sense of dominance oppresses everyone.
Those people of theirs,” who sit atop the ministers and MPs, have no account of whose chest, whose neck, whose head they step on. They establish and control a vast empire of extortion, land grabbing, and intimidation throughout the area (leasehold area), turning 56,000 square miles into a sanctuary of looting, extortion, and land grabbing. Corruption, looting, extortion, land grabbing, intimidation, syndicate racketeering, bank robbery, and money laundering have become firmly established in this country as the royal rights of the elected political forces. The entire land is divided among people associated with their families, their people in the administration-bureaucracy, and their supporting sycophant groups, as if it were leased. It’s like a new zamindari (landlord system), a five-sala (five-year) settlement; some try to increase this zamindari five times, ten times, fifteen times… and succeed.
In this country, a political government means the extortion of sycophants, the land grabbing of brokers, and the looting of ‘ideal soldiers’. Here, it is an insoluble riddle whether politics drives land grabbing or land grabbing drives politics. In the fog of this riddle, the simple, foolish masses are blinded and trapped in a terrible hoax. Yes, in this country, the name of this hoax is ‘democracy’, its name is ‘politics’. Here, democracy means election after election, in this country, politics means vote after vote gambling, and if you can win in this gambling, there is a non-stop flood of theft, robbery, and looting. The sweating masses vote to elect their representatives for their proportionate rights to their own sweat, to change their own destiny. After being elected, the representatives drag their own fortunes to Malaysia, Singapore, London, Canada, America. The masses and the people’s country are left behind, destitute. After the vote, the representatives of the people become the ‘oppressors’ of the ‘people’ of the people’s republic.
Party (political) administration, party (political) police, party (political) bureaucracy, party (political) judiciary become essential as the supporting forces of this looting and corruption. That is, administration, police, bureaucracy, judiciary etc. lose their neutral position; Their neutral and people-oriented character is robbed. And as usual in these great seats of state, corruption and looting continue at a proportionate rate. Justice is robbed, justice is robbed, justice is robbed, and justice is robbed. After all, people-oriented, fair and legal management is completely looted at every level of the state. There is not an institution in the country today that has not been rendered ineffective by ‘politicisation’. The common name of this golden opportunity of total plunder in Sonar Bengal is ‘politics’ or ‘party politics’. And its basis is the individual-worship-tantra or the family-worship-tantra. This ‘Tantra’ is showing the alternation of ‘our people’ versus ‘their people’ everywhere. However, it is not possible to know the debt that is being imposed on the neck of a government that is looting and corrupting during the tenure of that government. The cat is coming out of the bag after they lose power, by then the bag is empty.
In Bangladesh, ‘invasion’ and ‘politics’ are synonymous today, whoever you are, you have to admit it for the sake of truth. Therefore, in the name of the spirit of the liberation war, unlimited looting and corruption is possible here, in the name of democracy, individualistic tyranny is matured. At the beck and call of the majority, the constitution is torn and plastered as it pleases. The history of our movement and struggle, our national pride, all our achievements have been held hostage by some political power in the name of politics. We are divided by thick lines. And the divided nation after a while only loses strength among itself, causes bloodshed, cannot move forward. Liberation War is our national pride, why will it be the property of a family! Why will it be used as a political-business worship or political-factory raw material of a particular party! The common people of Bangladesh want an end to this situation.
The momentum of our major political forces is opposite to each other. Their attempt to divide and exploit the nation is reminiscent of the British “divide and rule”. For this they have different ‘consciousness business’. Some are traders in the spirit of liberation war, some are traders in the spirit of neo-nationalism, some are traders in the spirit of Islam, some are traders in the spirit of communism and in the middle are the ‘football’ people. Some see the country through the glasses of BNP, some see the country through the glasses of Jamaat, some see the country through the glasses of Awami League, some see the country through the glasses of the right, some see the country through the glasses of the left. But we need people who have the ability to see the country with their own eyes.
Major political parties are individual and family oriented, not people oriented. Instead of practicing democracy within the party, they want to spread democracy in the country by maintaining ‘monarchical individualism’ within the party. The leader’s big name and picture on signboards, banners, festoons, billboards, advertisements and pylons cover the country, and the people of the country fall under his cover. All parties become the leader’s party, not the people’s party. Individualism means authoritarianism, i.e. tyranny, and tyranny in the guise of democracy is more dangerous than open tyranny.
This sycophancy, brokering, lewdness, flattery and slavery is ‘politics’ here. Bangladesh has been witnessing the change of this worship system since its birth. Term after term of power, the worship of the leader, the worship of the family of the leader, the worship of the party of the leader, the worship of the grave of the leader, the worship of the idol of the leader is going on here. Bengali mother’s face is shamefully smeared in this political worship practice. If this is ‘politics’, then people want to get rid of this politics forever. If his name is ‘depoliticization’, then let him be the ruler of the freedom of slavery of the people of this country.
During the ‘controversial’ Fakhruddin Ahmad government, such a public desire to reform the country was created. We were encouraged and hopeful by the many revolutionary proposals for reform. Common people were hoping that something good would happen for the people of the country. At that time, I traveled to the grassroots level in Dhaka to know the public sentiment about the Fakhruddin government. Slum dwellers, rickshaw pullers, hawkers, labourers, dust level people have all heard the same thing, they expressed their satisfaction with the government, “This government is a smart country”, they don’t want any ‘votes’. Their pent-up anger, hatred and resentment towards conventional politics is being expressed in words. But in the end nothing happened, the darkness in which man was bound remains the same, rather it has become more intense. The reforms they made or threatened to reform were discarded by the ‘elected’ Awami League government. Mischief wins in the name of politics.
The theories of ‘one-eleven’, ‘minus-two formula’, ‘depoliticization’ etc. were often heard referring to the Fakhruddin government, but these days it has been heard again. Here’s the thing to see, who are those who are raising this rumor? Why are they expressing fear of ‘depoliticization’? What do they really mean by ‘depoliticisation’? Besides, we have to see how much ‘politicization’ has benefited the people of the country so far! If the so-called ‘depoliticization’ is established, how much loss can the common people face!
It is the moneylenders of politics who are alarmed by the prospect of ‘depoliticisation’ i.e. stopping the business of politics and are trying to spread fear in the name of depoliticisation. Who does not know that politics is the most profitable business in this country. Once you can stand up to a miracle, up to thirty-five men are empty profits and profits. Many people will leave this business if the opportunities for income and looting through politics are closed forever. In the name of people’s suffrage, democracy and good governance, some of them risked their lives to maintain the empire of looting and corruption, while others risked their lives to settle in the empire of looting and corruption. In the name of fear of de-nationalization, they are actually afraid of losing this empire.
They are saying word for word, “depoliticization cannot be done”, “depoliticization is going on successfully in the country”, “our war against depoliticization” etc. etc. Do the political parties think that they are the only owners of this country? They will in turn hold the country and the people hostage to the fraud of political power. In their attitude, it seems that the political party is not in power, it means that there is no politics in the country, the country has gone to the abyss. All must remember that political affiliation and political awareness are not the same thing. If citizens are not politically-aware, political parties are of no use in being in power. Again the question whether the political party is in power or not is not important, if the countrymen are politically-aware.
It seems that the people of the country are crazy about the elections, dying to vote because of the political parties. Our country is a republic, the people own the country. Those subjects do not seem to have gone mad for ‘politics’, for political government. Because most of the people of this country are simple, but today they understand that politics in this country is a joke in the name of elections, ‘your leader is my leader’. Here only a handful of families play this funny game. Religious politics survives in this country by blackmailing the stupid passions of the larger stupid masses, and party politics survives on looting-bribery-grabbing. Citizens have turned away from this evil politics, corruption and misrule. They want alternatives, freedom. But the way corruption has gripped politics like an octopus, the liberation of the people of this country seems far away.
A group of political ‘angels’ say they want elections “as soon as possible” and an elected government. Tell me why! Because they want to sit on the mattress quickly. Deprived of serving people for one and a half years, he has continuously accumulated sins, and how much more! “… there is no alternative to the elected government to develop and prosper the country… the development of the people is possible only through the elected government of the people… a government of the people is responsible to the people…” But these words seem to me to be heavenly ‘Aishi Bani’. .
To put it simply in Bengal, theft, robbery, robbery, extortion, usurpation, and ‘license’ for reporting are called politics here. By ‘your party’ power, you can do whatever you want. Divya can walk around even after leaving the body in broad daylight. No one can say anything, not even the common citizens, not even the administration-law and order forces. So if the end of this situation is ‘depoliticisation’, then that imagined ‘depoliticisation’ is what people want. A state system in which the number of thieves and robbers is less is good. Because the situation is such that we don’t have the courage to imagine a completely thief-free system. However, the politics of this mafia circle cannot be allowed to continue under any logic. Clan-centric slavery, theft, anarchy and gangsterism in the name of politics must be stopped now.
