If there was any doubt that the ‘official opposition’ Jatiya Party (JP) is anything more than a front-organization of the ruling one party Awami League junta, it should be dispelled with this meeting where the Bangladeshi dictator is setting up the leadership of the ‘opposition’. This blog has long maintained that JP—founded by the late dictator H M Ershad as a temporary vehicle for his political ambitions—is analogous to the phony and supplicant ‘other’ parties in the former East Germany, China, and North Korea. Only idiotic Western journalists go along with their patrons in the Dhaka Tribune, Daily Sun, and bdnews24 to make the JP something other than the Her Master’s Voice that it really is.
