Only a day before we were so happy, looking cute in our comfortable office rooms, we were happily practicing target shooting on close relatives, eating singaras and guffawing at the pitiable state of affairs in the country.

You see, such a pitiable state of affairs is good news for us politicians who could become billionaires in a couple of years in a poor country like Bangladesh (it was hard work believe me).

So, for us the mantra is: the worse, the better. Only the other day we were patting each other's backs in glee as the "yellow brick road" to power looked so clear and so smooth.

The throne at the end of the road looked so large and so close. Plan A was working perfectly well for us. Ah! Only ten more days to go and then power would have been ours, waiting there for us to grab once again.

But, no! It was not to be! At least not under Plan A! Suddenly, we found out that things were not working anymore according to the plan.

The planted agents at the right places failed and faltered. And then the worst happened! Powerful people from distant shores were seen moving about the city on strange missions. We sensed intrigue in the air.

What are they up to, we wondered? Credible election ... all party participation ... international acceptability ... rejection ... no cooperation!

Why are they talking in a language we do not understand? Are they talking about our politics ... our very internal affairs!

How dare those mischievously meddling and intrusively impertinent foreigners do such a thing to shatter our dream? How can they snatch away food from our mouth?

Exactly ... how dare those foreigners poke their long and short noses into the internal affairs of our country, into our politics, no matter how rotten it has become? We love the strong stench coming from the carcass.

Pray, tell us. Who has given those fiendish foreigners entry visa to be here in the first place? Where are those intelligence people on our payroll? Why are they sucking their thumbs when our Plan A has gone kaput?

Where are those loyal police officers and their hordes of baton-wielding and shot-gun toting policemen, why don't they beat the hell out of those insolent foreigners and drive them out of the country?

Somebody tell those foreigners that it is our country, and we shall do whatever we want to do with it, like tear it apart or sink it in the Bay. They have no business talking about how we shall do politics.

Their business is to give us billions of dollars as development aid ... for our personal development that is ... and forget about it.

We tried our best to contact those stubborn foreigners with black briefcases. We were ready with millions of dollars in cash, but our agents could not get near them. Don't they need money?

We are rich enough to buy the whole lot of them. Only if they were fool enough.

We are also at a loss trying to figure out who opened the gates to the Emerald City where the Wizard of Odd lived so securely.

He was kept in such a well-guarded place, surrounded by our own people so that none could go near him. He was doing a good job really, until that eventful morning when strange people barged in and persuaded him to read out a letter filled with strange words.

He has profoundly disappointed us, our clan I mean, though we have heard that his words have made most of the people heave a sigh of relief.

But I wonder why. Why people are so ungrateful. Just because we could not control the market price; just because we could not control the oil price; just because we could not give them electricity and fertiliser; just because our loyal policemen shot them down; just because we allowed militants to become too powerful and kill innocent people; just because our people tampered with BCS and other exam questions; just because we arrested people by the thousand before any political program; just because ...?

Don't they see that we have given them numerous satellite channels to be entertained when they go hungry? Don't they see that there is no one to question how you acquire wealth and become filthy rich?

Don't they see that we almost eliminated the anti-corruption bureau so that our people could go about doing as they pleased? Don't they see that we have kept the civil administration guys at our beck and call (remember Uttara?)? Don't they see that we have kept the judiciary under our grip so that we may arrange bail for murderers and land grabbers, and stop the hearing of a case any time we wanted to?

Now, haven't we done all these things for the people?

Now, with the state of emergency clamped, we shall not be able to serve the people of the country.

You see, we were born to rule. It is our birthright. There cannot be anyone else in this country but us who could go to power and rule. Therefore, we shall have to be strong and get united.

Once again we shall have to start plotting and polluting, controlling and conniving, scheming and stifling everything that is decent, democratic, civil and orderly. You see, we thrive in disorder.

Shahnoor Wahid is a Senior Assistant Editor of The Daily Star.