Comitted to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 4 Num 109 Fri. September 12, 2003  
   
Letters to Editor


Thanks for the confession


Foreign minister, M Morshed Khan, made a comment that the 'politicians make curbing crime difficult,' which appeared in The Daily Star on 6th September. This is really a brave and praiseworthy comment. In our country, most of the crimes are committed under the supervision of political leaders. We know that when police arrest any miscreant, the political leaders request the administration to unleash him, or a minister phones to the thane police officer to unleash him saying things like: he is my relative or my political activist and so on.

In the city we see that many miscreants are led by MPs' of the government party or top leaders of the opposition party. Both the government and the opposition party foster gangsters for their own interest. They use them to root out their political rivals.

There are two main parties in our country, Bangladesh Awami league and Bangladesh Nationalist Party. These two parties harbour most of the miscreants. If both the parties take steps to free their party from miscreants, crimes of our country can be reduced. For this, political consensus is necessary.