The people are the source of his strength. Mir Nasir is a politician. He derives his power from the state not the people. That to me is the biggest difference between a true leader and a politician. A true leader does not need state power to win elections.

Leaders have always inspired people. They make people feel good about themselves, have a way of making an average person feel important. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had that skill. That is why he was able to unite the people and make them fight for a common cause. It does not take much to please a person who barely has two good meals a day- a hug and a little bit of care and he will most probably be happy to pour his heart out to you. Yet, our politicians who get elected by the people seem to forget all that once they set foot in Dhaka. Then it becomes a game of how many apartments they can buy, how many foreign trips they can get and so on. They become state -focused instead of focusing on the people that can bring them back to Dhaka again. I am not saying they are all like that, but many are. Some might even argue that most are.

So for all those political pundits who cannot figure out why what happened in Chittagong happened just ask the people. This was a fight between a leader and a politician and the leader won!