THERE should be no doubt that Bangladesh is inviting its own doom. The current situation in the country indicates a complete collapse of law and order and governance -- which was so strongly indicated by the 100-plus crude bomb blasts and countless incidents of vehicle arson attacks in one single day. Whatever the country has achieved by way of progress through democratic means until just a couple of years ago appears to have been washed down the drain of a so-called revolution. It is clear that the country is proceeding fast towards anarchy. Possibly, the masterminds of the so-called revolution aim precisely at this situation.

 

Political killings, communal violence of extreme nature, inexplicable mob-frenzy, attacks on people from minority community have become common features of the internal situation in Bangladesh since the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed (who has taken asylum in India). No matter the political tall talk by Prime Minister Mr. Tarique Rahman that democracy is at work in the country, factually Bangladesh is being dominated by ruffians whose main purpose is to keep creating chaotic conditions all the time. There are analysts who feel strongly that Bangladesh is going the Pakistan way by harbouring disruptionist elements as political tools. Until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was in control, the country was making a steady and happy progress on almost all developmental parameters through democratic processes. Yet a mob of so-called young people physically attacked her official residence and office and made her leave the country on the sly. For the past some time, she has been making efforts in her own way to return to Bangladesh and re-start political activity in the larger interest of the country. Those efforts do not appear to succeed simply because the powers that be in the Bangladesh do not want her back. The courts in the country, too, have declared her a ‘war criminal’ -- which forbids her return. In short, a revival of the political, democratic process in Bangladesh appears rather bleak. When democratic process was fully at work in Bangladesh, the country’s economy was considered almost as good as any prosperous nation.

 

There was poverty, all right, but the Government’s effort of economic upliftment of the backward classes were showing encouraging results. What Prime Minister Hasina Wajed gave Bangladesh was not just a structural position, but also emotional leadership (which every developing country needs all the time). With her ouster by what is now proving to be a criminal gangsterism, Bangladesh landed itself in a trouble who solution nobody appears to have. Prof Mohammad Yunus could not stabilise the country’s disturbed political process, and did not miss the chance to add to more confusion to the situation. He made senseless agreements -- mostly with suspect purposes -- with other countries lending them much power to dabble in the country’s internal affairs.

 

One of the biggest failures of Prof. Yunus was on the communal harmony front. During his regime, communal violence reached another peak -- causing serious concern in India since the Hindu community was being targeted by communal mobs in Bangladesh. In the current wave of violence sweeping across the country, the communal element is all the time operating. One of the triggers of the current violence is also the possible return of Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh. In sum and substance, Bangladesh finds itself deep in the ugly and unholy grip of disturbances of all kinds. The so-called regime change in the country has proved to be nothing but an outcome a mob frenzy with no stated political purpose of improving the situation. There is every reason to believe that anarchy was the goal which the masterminds of the so-called revolution have been able to achieve. India has kept a careful watch on the developments in Bangladesh, but may not be able to do anything to improve the situation since it is the internal matter of the country. It knows fully that one more of its neighbours is in deep trouble.