CPA and Bangladesh
Syed Muntazir Zaidi, LACC College, LA, California
The CPA (Commonwealth Parliamentary Association) conference will start from October 4th. It will be attended by 522 delegates from 154 parliaments of 48 countries and Bangladesh is proud to be one of them. But the recent stand that the Opposition has taken to boycott the conference is indeed objectionable. A parliament consists of MPs from the ruling party and the opposition. And the parliament cannot function properly without the latter. In our country we have witnessed time and again, that whoever is in the opposition bench, do not bother to address people's issues in the house. The issues are discussed in the streets. We say that we believe in democracy, yet we do not follow democratic values. The existing situation will hamper the country's image immensely. In this kind of scenario all the political parties should join hands and work for the progress and prosperity of the country.
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