Awami League apologists like Gowher Rizvi and his ilk regularly regale us about how Bangladesh is the epitome of Westminster parliamentary democracy…..but shy away from the obvious truth that only in Bangladesh among such ‘democracies’ is the ruling party and the ‘official’ Opposition (Jatiya Party) elected as electoral coalition partners. It is the statecraft equivalent of having your cake and eating it too. Puts a whole new meaning to the ancient phrase “Her (Bong) Majesty’s Loyal Opposition”.
Only in Bong-land!
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A Bengali by ethnicity, a college administrator and teacher by profession, and a bibliophile by passion whose heart breaks watching the debasement of Bangladesh's once vibrant pluralist democracy into a one party, one family dictatorship since 2014. View more posts
I’d missed that General Ershad had taken on the role of, erm, Opposition. Too busy counting the number of more genuine opposition candidates in jail or hospital, I guess. But, then, wasn’t the General also in hospital for, as I recall, “loneliness”? Now that I read this, I understand why he might be feeling a little lonely….