Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 354 Fri. May 27, 2005       Letters to Editor Election Commission Tapader Md. Khalilur Rahman Kazipara, Rokeya Sarani, Mirpur, Dhaka Things at rest like to remain at rest and things at motion like to remain in motion until and unless an external force acts on it. This is nothing but inertia. But we very often oppose changes although time and circumstances warrant those changes. Every change is a development. But frequent changes may make development slower. Time changes. To cope with the changing time some changes are required to be brought to the rules regulations and structures of different organisations. Demands are on the rise to bring some changes in the framework of the rules and regulations of the Election Commission. But reaction that usually follows to a demand for change is in the offing. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This action-reaction outside the House of Nations has caused so much harm to us. Now the CEC himself has stressed the need for reforms in the Election Commission. No country in the world has this "caretaker government" system. We have it. Necessity is the mother of invention. Our need and necessity led us to invent the system. The political leaders should look at themselves and their failures through the CTG system. Non-political persons who never took to the streets to press their demands have been successful for more than once to ensure free and fair elections which the most experienced political leaders have failed to accomplish for reasons best known to them. Therefore change should be brought to the EC to ensure its smooth, fair, neutral, bold and transparent functioning.