Column
BNP’s right decision
In a report carried in February 16 issue of The Economist published from London, it is stated that Shahbag rally is the biggest rally in Bangladesh for at least two decades. Many BNP supporters have been attending the rally at Shahbag daily. BNP remained tight lipped about the Shahabag movement all these days. Now the party can not denounce the Shahbag rally.
Shahbag movement has forced the BNP to revise its stand on the issue of war crimes and anti-liberation forces. It has also driven Jamaat to desperation. Jamaat feels at a loss and is unable to decide which way to go. The editor of a pro-Jamaat daily is now off balance and talking non-sense. A few days back he and his wife dismissed the huge gathering at Shahbag as mere ‘photo-shop’. The editor became so infuriated that he did not even hesitate to describe the young Shahbag protesters as ‘son of pigs’.
BNP has got the right message emanating from Shahbag. It has understood that anti- liberation azakar/Jamaat are no longer acceptable to the young generation. On the possibility of Jamaat taking anti-BNP stance, Acting Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that in the event of any partner moving out from the alliance, doors will remain open for other emocratic organizations and the alliance will become stronger.
At last good sense has dawned on BNP. There is an English proverb ‘better late than never’. The young generation hopes that the BNP will henceforth move in the right direction.