What enmity?
Sazzad Hossain On e-mail
For some of us politics in Bangladesh has always been a schizophrenic affair. Whenever any political hot issue comes into spotlight, we withdraw from patriotism (do we have much?) to form any conclusive opinion with casual acquaintances and even with friends, leave alone comradeship in buses or other public transport. We go schmaltz (excessively sentimental) with our own respective party affiliation. Observing the turn of events after the simultaneous bombing on the 17 August 22, 2005, it became quite obvious to everyone that a combined effort of various political parties should be a priority to tackle this grave situation. We are unable to do so for a very primitive reason - fear of a rebuttal of all our past enmity. We may finally realise that political parties are only part of the system to uphold the sovereignty of a country, and not the other way round. Then - what enmity?
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